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  The Currier & Ives Page
Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent.
Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives are laid to rest along with their families at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/4818/history.html   (1889 words)

  
 The Old Print Shop - James Merritt Ives (1824-1895)
James Merritt Ives was born on March 5, 1824 on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was the superintendent.
Caroline was the sister-in-law of Nathaniel Currier's brother, Charles Currier, who recommended James M. Ives to his brother.
James M. Ives like his partner Nathaniel Currier, was dedicated to the business and he worked at the firm until his death in 1895.
www.oldprintshop.com /artists/currier-ives-j_m_ives.htm   (186 words)

  
 Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Ebenezer Ives & Mary Atwater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
James Ives was born in North Haven on October 19, 1718, and died on August 15, 1826.
Miriam Ives [#165]: She was born in North Haven, Connecticut, on October 28, 1722, and died in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 11, 1792.
Lydia Ives was born in North Haven on October 2, 1733, and died in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, in 15 Dec. 1778.
www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/330.htm   (361 words)

  
 The Old Print Shop - Brief History of N. Currier and Currier & Ives
Ives knowledge of art, his ability to understand what the public wanted, and to communicate it to the many artists who worked at the firm made him an indispensable member of the firm.
It has been said that the name Currier & Ives is linked with the growth of the city as well as the nation and Ives was a major part of the growth of the firm.
Although steam presses existed, Currier and Ives felt that the impressions were inferior to the hand-pulled impressions.
www.oldprintshop.com /artists/currier-ives-history.htm   (1135 words)

  
 Glemsford: Ives Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
James was a labourer, Timothy was a horse clipper.
I’ve some reason to think that Elizabeth had as a second name Clare, and was Elizabeth Clare Hammond.
James Ives Head of Fam 56 ag lab born in Belchamp Walter.
web.ukonline.co.uk /stephen.clarke/lhsives.html   (725 words)

  
 Hingstons at St Ives (Tree HM)
James was baptized in St. Ives on 11 Sep 1735, the son of 6.
John was baptized in St. Ives on 3 Mar 1765, the on of 9.
Malachy was baptized in St. Ives on 11 Feb 1806, the son of 11.
www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk /cjb/hingston/hm.htm   (2816 words)

  
 Currier & Ives
Currier had begun the business in 1835, but it wasn't until Ives joined him as a partner in 1857 that the firm became recognized for the artistry in its scenes of everyday American life, including horse-drawn carriages and sleighs, yachts, trains, and nature scenes, especially popular as Christmas cards.
Currier and Ives were succeeded by their sons, who ran the business until it was liquidated in 1907.
Ives was originally hired to be Currier's bookkeeper, but his art education led him to dabble in producing the drawings and paintings himself.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771947.html   (138 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Burl Ives
Soon Ives was singing ballads at charity events and parties, sharing his vast repertoire of folk songs with appreciative audiences that often included some of the leading lights of New York's leftist intelligentsia.
By 1945 Ives was starring in Sing Out Sweet Land, a musical revue based on the folk songs he had popularized on his radio broadcasts, and the next year he made his film debut, playing a singing cowboy in Smoky.
By the time of his death in 1995, Ives was best remembered as a singer of children's songs; a narrator of animated Christmas specials for television; the kindly, avuncular man with the hefty girth.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200586   (882 words)

  
 Seaside Art Gallery of the Outer Banks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Currier and Ives was a New York firm in existence from 1857 -1907.
James Ives started as the firm's bookkeeper in 1852 and five years later became Currier's partner.
Nathaniel Currier died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895.
www.seasideart.com /artist.asp?id=22   (538 words)

  
 Ludgvan Lese Manorial Records
Stevens James Quicke Thomas John The Records of the yearly Manor Court of Ludgvan Lese and Porthia: 18 May 1716, Court Baron, held at the Guild Hall at St. Ives: presentations: the death of Mr.
Richard Curnow for leaving down a house in Trevalgen in the borough of St. Ives; to be repaired by next court or penalty of 40 pence.
Stevens of the borough of St. Ives; moiety of a tent.
webs.lanset.com /azazella/ludgvan_lese.html   (2910 words)

  
 KOTC Database Category: ST. IVES ACADEMY, THE
Ives Academy in Vermont was first founded back in 1890 by Eric St. Ives, a wealthy immigrant who saw a need for a finishing school for the underprivledged.
The mansion suffered a major fire in the 60s in which James and his second wife perished, leaving the teen brothers under the guardianship of their aunt until they achieved their majorities.
As a team, the St. Ives heroes have tangled on a few occasions with the forces of the Winterbourne Institute, most notably when they rescued Slagg from their grasp.
members.shaw.ca /biffbolt/st-ives.htm   (627 words)

  
 Our Family Tree - Person Page 45
James Hood, son of Matthew Hood and Mary Ann (--?--), was born on 12 September 1889.
Edward James Hughes, son of Michael Thomas Hughes and Margaret Mary Rourke, was born on 2 June 1919 in Troy, New York.
Arthur Ives, son of James Ives and Charlotte (--?--), was born on 1 August 1919 in Barking, Essex.
www.karlfamilyhistory.com /p45.htm   (845 words)

  
 NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Well-educated in literature and the arts, Ives was soon not only overseeing the various artists who produced the original drawings but he himself began to dabble in producing drawings and paintings.
Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
Both Currier and his partner, Ives, are buried along with their families at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=633   (399 words)

  
 History of Currier & Ives
James was born in 1824 and a native New Yorker, self-trained artist and a professional bookkeeper.
James Merritt Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895.
One of the reasons Currier and Ives lithographs remain so popular is not only do they remind us of a simpler time gone past, they have never been seen as a fad.
www.currierprints.com /History.htm   (1079 words)

  
 Curriers& Ives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The firm of Currier & Ives, the most famous lithographers in America, was founded by Nathaniel Currier at 1 Wall Street in 1834.
In 1852 Currier engaged as a bookkeeper James Merrit Ives, who had recently married into the family.
The firm prospered until the deaths of Currier in 1888 and James Ives seven years later.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Zebufolder/Cur-Ives.html   (217 words)

  
 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Of course, both Ives and Sinclair were right, and much of the material for the concerto found its way into the Concord Sonata, and happily so.
Ives fans, of course, should hear it and draw their own conclusions.
Of course, compared to the mature Ives it's tame stuff, but with all of its repeats in place and lasting some 45 minutes, the work now has a bigness of vision and greatness of heart that identifies it, emotionally at least, as genuine Ives, indelibly stamped with his irrepressible personality even at this early stage.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7079   (478 words)

  
 Currier and Ives
Nathaniel Currier was a printmaker and businessman; James Ives started as the firm's bookkeeper in 1852 and five years later became Currier's partner.
Nathaniel Currier retired in 1880 and died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895.
The Currier and Ives firm was in the business of producing lithographed prints intended to be sold to the general public for framing and display in the home or at work.
www.philaprintshop.com /currhist.html   (1183 words)

  
 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Artist Profile
Currier and Ives was America’s longest running printing establishment, publishing over seven thousand images covering a span of seventy-three years.
It has been said that the name Currier& Ives is linked with the growth of the city as well as the nation and Ives was a major part of the growth of the firm.
Although steam presses existed, Currier and Ives felt that the impressions were inferior to the hand- pulled impressions.
www.printdealers.com /artist_template.cfm?id=336   (1124 words)

  
 Endpage: The purpose of this book
James McCord graduated as a civilian from a military war college during the Vietnam War where it was extensively debated by the senior government officials involved in carrying it out..
He was hired with the specific orders to prevent a reoccurrence at the 1973 GOP National Convention of the 1968 violence and bloodshed which had occurred at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in which the anti-war Chicago 7 were indicted and convicted in Federal Court for violence after that Convention.
James McCord is writing a third book about an American who was a Soviet spy for 30 years and about whom no book has heretofore been written.
www.mccordfamilyassn.com /endpage.htm   (8245 words)

  
 Amon Carter Museum | The America of Currier & Ives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lithography firm of Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895)
Drawn on stone by Charles R. Parsons (1821–1910) Lithography firm of Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895)
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the American lithography firm operated by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and his brother-in-law, James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), produced over a million impressions of more than 7,000 popular depictions of American life.
www.cartermuseum.org /Exhibitions/currier_ives/currierives.html   (155 words)

  
 Exhibition:"I Do Solemnly Swear..."Inaugural Materials from the Collections of the Library of Congress ...
President-elect Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was accompanied by outgoing President James Polk to the inauguration ceremony on Monday, March 5, 1849, because March 4 fell on a Sunday.
James Buchanan (1791-1868), the fifteenth president of the United States and the first bachelor elected, was inaugurated on March 4, 1857.
James A. Garfield began his inaugural address by acknowledging the belief in some parts of the world that government could not safely be entrusted to the people.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/treasures/inaugural-exhibit.html   (5063 words)

  
 Currier and Ives Biography / Biography of Currier and Ives Biography Biography
Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) were partners in the firm of Currier and Ives, the most important 19th-century lithographic company in America.
Currier retired in 1888, Ives a few years later; but the firm was carried on by their sons and flourished until 1907.
Currier and Ives avoided controversial subjects, although there was at least one print showing the branding of slaves prior to embarkation from Africa.
www.bookrags.com /biography-currier-and-ives   (613 words)

  
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NATHANIEL CURRIER (1813-1888) & JAMES MERRITT IVES (1824-1895)
Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent.
Ives was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper.
www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=86   (409 words)

  
 Currier & Ives
From 1834 to 1907 the firm of Currier and Ives provided for the American people a pictorial history of their country's growth from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.
If there is a particular print or type of print which you are seeking, please feel free to contact us so that we can keep you informed of their availability.
This is the result of their having been kept in an acidic environment, often by being in contact with wood backing or wood-pulp matting.
www.philaprintshop.com /currier.html   (711 words)

  
 West Penwith Resources - Pigot's Directory (1844) - St. Ives
SAINT IVES is a sea-port, market town, borough and parish, in the hundred of Penwith—278 miles from London, and 104 from Exeter; situated on the western side of the bay of its name, which opens to the Bristol channel.
In the valleys near the town there are many rivulets, which propel the machinery used in the preparation of tin and copper ores for the market, and turn corn mills.
Ives was first incorporated by Charles I; this charter was superseded by the Municipal Act passed in 1835, which vested the government in a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors—styling the corporate body ‘the mayor and burgesses of the borough of St. Ives:’ the same act gave to the borough a commission of the peace.
west-penwith.org.uk /ivesp44.htm   (530 words)

  
 Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People
In 1857, Currier formed a partnership with James Merritt Ives, a self-trained artist who had been the firm's bookkeeper for five years and was related to the Currier family by marriage.
The resulting firm of Currier and Ives was spectacularly prolific, producing an average of three or four new prints every week for 50 years.
The success of Currier and Ives was part of the larger story of widespread American upward mobility and the mechanization of publishing.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa36.htm   (943 words)

  
 James William Ives and Madie Cason
James William Ives and his three sisters were raised on that property.
After the death of his mother, Sarah Ross Ives, James' father, Joseph, moved to Florida to be with James and his family.
James lived on the Island for most of the year while his wife, Madie, ran the Dairy.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~formyfamily/JamesWilliamIves2.htm   (951 words)

  
 Currier & Ives Print Collection
One could say, that Currier and Ives’ work opened a way for the people of America to finally see images in color.
They provided solace for the grieving, with funeral prints of remembrance, where the name of the departed could be written or printed on a blank headstone.
James Merrit Ives and their contribution to our American way of life.
www.curriercollection.com   (853 words)

  
 A Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives.
by James Sinclair, in an "Ives Potpourri" concert of music for chamber orchestra and chorus, given in Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University, as the seventh and final concert of the Ives Centennial Festival-Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and the School of Music, Yale University.
This is an electronic version of A Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives by James B. Sinclair, published in book form by the Yale University Press in 1999.
The remainder of the Ives Papers are described in Vivian Perlis, Charles Ives Papers (New Haven: Yale University Music Library, 1983).
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/music/ci-s1d.htm   (1987 words)

  
 Charles Ives News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I've not got around to reading this yet, but I've heard that these are wonderful stories.
Hopefully, this will be one of many high-profile Ives releases to take place in 2004, since the year will be the 130th anniversary of Ives' birth and the 50th anniversary of his passing.
Ives scholar and conductor James Sinclair has commenced his series of Ives orchestral works for Naxos with the a wonderful recording of Ives' Third Symphony and other works.
www.musicweb-international.com /Ives/09_News.htm   (2474 words)

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