Ladder of Fortune

Currier & Ives

• 1852 partnership - mass-produced 3 lithographic prints per week priced from $4 to 15 cents
• new steel plates replaced less durable copper lithographs
• themes of progress, technology, heroes, Protestant ethic
• rural small town life, sex roles idealized
• Autumn in New England
• American Farm Scenes series
• animals idealized in Horse Race, Winter Road
• birdseye views of towns
• Tree of Life or Death
• Erie Railroad ad, western expansion
• American heroes

Links:

• William McGuffey page from Univ. of Virginia
• 4 Hudson River School ../../USPics18 from the Munson Williams Proctor Institute on the Cole page of the Living Schoolbook Project at Syracuse
• Landscape, 1866 , from the Durand page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
• View of the Hudson River Valley from Olana, 1867 , from the Frederic Church page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
• Near Salt Lake City Utah, 1881c , from the Bierstadt page of the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
• View additional examples of the Hudson River School at the Desmond-Fish Library online exhibit of 1000 works of art
• The "Lightning Express" Trains: "Leaving the Junction" picture from Currier & Ives online exhibit from City Museum of New York

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