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Washington & Lincoln
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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
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