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	The Currier & Ives Page
		Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature.
		Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children.
		Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives are laid to rest along with their families at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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	Branding Slaves on the Coast of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) was apprenticed at age 15 to the lithography firm of William S. and John Pendleton of Boston, Massachusetts.
		Currier's prints appeared at about the same time that Americans were adding a fashionable new room to their homes--the parlor--which required tasteful furnishings and decor.
		Currier changed the sex of the slave to a male and added several years to the age of the young boy holding the lantern.
	www.afrolumens.org /slavery/branding.html (532 words)

	Nathaniel Currier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nathaniel Currier (27 March 1813 - 20 November 1888) was an American lithographer, who headed the company Currier and Ives with James Ives.
		Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier.
		Currier was first married to Eliza West Farnsworth, with whom he had one child, Edward West Currier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathaniel_Currier (471 words)

	The Old Print Shop - Brief History of N. Currier and Currier & Ives
		The early history of Currier & Ives follows its founder, Nathaniel Currier, and the first lithographic house of America, William and John Pendleton of Boston.
		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.
		After the retirement of Nathaniel Currier in 1880, his son, Edward West Currier, succeeded him; and on the death of James Merritt Ives in 1895 his son, Chauncy Ives, succeeded him.
	www.oldprintshop.com /artists/currier-ives-history.htm (1135 words)

	Currier and Ives Biography \| Encyclopedia of World 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.
		Nathaniel Currier, born in Roxbury, Mass., was apprenticed in his teens to a Boston lithographic firm.
		Currier retired in 1888, Ives a few years later; but the firm was carried on by their sons and flourished until 1907.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/currier-and-ives (517 words)

	AHPCS - Currier & Ives - History of the Firm
		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.
		Currier and Ives used all sorts of sources for their prints, including staff artists who are unknown today, as well as a group of more famous artists such as Louis Maurer, Thomas Worth, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Frances ('Fanny') Flora Bond Palmer, George H. Durrie, Napoleon Sarony, Charles Parsons, and J. Butterworth.
	www.ahpcs.org /Library/curhist.htm (715 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Currier print of Washington not very valuable
		Dear P.A.H.: Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives described themselves as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures." During their careers their prints were available on the streets of New York City for anywhere from just a few cents for the smallest images to just a few dollars for the largest, finest examples.
		Currier was born on March 27, 1813, and is said to have been melancholy and introspective.
		Currier, and later Currier and Ives, provided these as well as prints of various kinds of races and other sporting themes, sentimental scenes, images of politicians, historically themed scenes and scenes from everyday life.
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	International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
		Currier and Ives was Americaâs longest running printing establishment, publishing over seven thousand images covering a span of seventy-three years.
		The early history of Currier and Ives follows its founder, Nathaniel Currier, and the first lithographic house of America, William and John Pendleton of Boston.
		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.
	www.printdealers.com /artist_template.cfm?id=336 (1116 words)

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		Presented to Nathaniel Currier as a surprise Christmas present by company employees, Nat Currier and his second wife, Lura are the couple in the sleigh.
		Nathaniel Currier was born on March 27, 1813, at a time when lithography was in its infancy.
		Currier was taught this revolutionary new printing process at age 15, when he worked as an apprentice for the first successful American lithographers, William and John Pendleton.
	www.antiqueshoppefl.com /archives/jsheluk/currier.html (801 words)

	Seeing Through Currier & Ives: The Reality Behind the Nostalgia
		Nathaniel Currier started his solo firm in 1835 and made James Ives his partner in 1857.
		Currier and Ives were not in the business of selling nostalgia and its cousin, sentiment, so much as they were in the business of selling.
		Currier's savvy sense of what the public wanted propelled him into the lucrative arena of newspaper and magazine illustration and made his early reputation.
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	The Old Print Shop - Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888)
		Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
		Nathaniel was married twice, his first wife Miss Eliza West of Boston.
		Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter.
	www.oldprintshop.com /artists/currier-ives-nat.htm (378 words)

	Nathaniel Currier (and James Ives)
		Nathaniel Currier was apprenticed to this first American lithographer at about the age of eighteen.
		Currier went into the printing business for himself in 1834 and a few years later saw the possibilities of using lithographed pictures for the news media.
		However, it was not until 1857, when Currier took James Ives as a partner, that the real flood of over 5,000 prints began and the coverage was extended to include news, sports, transportation, patriotic, juvenile, landscape, and genre subjects.
	www.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/Currier_and_Ives.html (269 words)

	Currier and Ives Art Prints
		Currier and Ives, firm of American lithographers, active during the 19th century.
		Currier's first successful print depicted destruction from an 1835 fire that destroyed a large part of lower Manhattan.
		This lithograph was followed by the series, now known as Currier and Ives prints, devoted to contemporary subjects that ranged from the familiar to the sensational: scenes of social and domestic life, public disasters, and raids by Native Americans.
	www.victoriana.com /library/currier.htm (162 words)

	Welcome To the Official Site of the Sanctuary of Saint Philomena, Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy
		Nathaniel Currier, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27, 1813.
		Nathaniel experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, including a tribute to President William Henry Harrison who in 1841died in office.
		Nathaniel Currier retired in 1880, and turned his share of the firm over to his son Edward West Currier.
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	The Charm of Currier & Ives - Art History
		Currier was moderately successful with his new business, producing music and architectural prints as well as portraits and memorials.
		Currier & Ives considered themselves to be printers for the people and priced their prints accordingly.
		Today, Currier & Ives prints serve as a pictorial legacy of America in the late nineteenth century as the nation entered the Industrial Revolution during the Victorian era.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art47892.asp (824 words)

	Currier & Ives: master American printmakers - Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives - Museum Today - Illustration ...
		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 & Ives was spectacularly prolific, producing an average of three or four new prints every week for 50 years.
		Its images of news events and political cartoons appealed to readers of the inexpensive dailies of the "penny presses"; its decorative pictures underpriced engravings and chromolithographs; and its celebrity portraits and historical scenes offered color and movement beyond the means of early photography.
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	Currier & Ives — FactMonster.com
		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.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771947.html (155 words)

	Seaside Art Gallery of the Outer Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Currier and Ives was a New York firm in existence from 1857 -1907.
		Nathaniel Currier died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895.
		All of the original Currier and Ives were printed from lithographic stones on which the drawing was done entirely by hand.
	www.seasideart.com /artist.asp?id=22 (538 words)

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		Nathaniel Currier was born on March 27th, 1813 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
		In 1835, Stodart ended the partnership and young Currier, only 22, renamed his business “N. Currier, Lithographer.” In the upcoming years, Nathaniel Currier was married.
		Currier eventually became so dependant on Ives, that he made him his partner.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=86 (484 words)

	Currier & Ives
		His father died when Nathaniel was only eight, and the young boy and his older brother Lorenzo began to work odd jobs to support themselves, their mother, and two younger siblings.
		In 1840 Nathaniel Currier married Eliza Farnsworth; their first child, Edward West Currier, was born a year later.
		Nathaniel was a 34-year-old widower with a 6-year-old son.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/12192/85960 (487 words)

	Nathaniel Currier ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Nathaniel Currier, Son and Daughter of Temperance, 1850
		Nathaniel Currier, The Whale Fishery Laying On., 1852
		Nathaniel Currier, Washington"s Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., 19th century
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	eBay Guides - Currier Ives Prints and Recognizing an Original
		Currier retired in 1880 and died in 1888.
		Currier used a cotton based medium to heavy weight paper depending on the folio dimension for their prints until the late 1860’s to 1870, Currier and Ives used a paper mixed with a minuscule amount of wood pulp.
		Most Currier and Ives prints are hand colored lithographs, although Currier and Ives did issue several uncolored prints and a number of chromolithographs due to the high cost this process was short-lived and are sought after by collectors.
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	Biography of Nathaniel Currier at Lyons Limited Antique Prints
		Nathaniel Currier began his apprenticeship in lithography at the age of fifteen with William and John Pendleton of Boston, America's first lithographers of note.
		In 1852 Currier engaged as bookkeeper James Merritt Ives, who had recently married the sister in law of Nathaniel's brother Charles.
		The firm prospered until the deaths of Nathaniel Currier in 1888 and Ives seven years later.
	www.lyonsltd.com /index.cfm/FuseAction/Main.ArtistBio/artistID/655.cfm (210 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 13¢ Winter Pastime by Nathaniel Currier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Captured simply with mid-nineteenth-century flavor are warm and familiar scenes depicted on the thousands of lithographs produced by Nathaniel Currier and James Ives.
		Started in 1835 by Currier and later enhanced with the talented abilities of Ives in 1852, their New York shop turned out countless prints for which the public happily paid very little each.
		Currier & Ives' Christmas is the subject of one of America's fifteenth-annual Christmas stamps.
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	Currier & Ives: An American Panorama
		Currier and Ives: An American Panorama will showcase some of Currier and Ives' most popular subjects, including American scenic wonders; leisure pastimes such as hunting, yachting and horse racing; portraits of famous personalities; heroic activities such as firefighting; westward expansion; and important moments in history.
		Currier had several business partners over the years, but it was James Merritt Ives who encouraged production of the prints that are now identified with the firm -- idealized pictures of the daily experiences of middle class American life in the 19th century.
		Currier and Ives prints were among the household decorations considered appropriate for a proper home by Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, authors of American Woman's Home (1869): "The great value of pictures for the home would be, after all, in their sentiment.
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	CURRIER & IVES - AMERICA’S PRINTMAKERS
		Day recalled that five years earlier, 23 year old Nathaniel Currier made a reputation for himself by issuing the highly successful graphic print "The Ruins of the Merchants' Exchange N.Y." four days following the destructive Wall Street fire of December 16 and 17, 1835.
		Currier was not a man to ignore endeavors that proved successful.
		Currier and Ives recognized men's attraction toward danger and sport.
	www.antiquetalk.com /column115.htm (452 words)

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	Artcom Museums Tour: Currier Gallery of Art - Isadore & Lucille Zimmerman House
		The Currier is determined to serve all age groups and a culturally varied audience from New Hampshire and the surrounding region.
		Annually, the Currier produces four to five "Family Days" which include activities and programs for all ages, and are often designed to enhance the special exhibitions on view at that time (for example, a recent exhibition of prints by John James Audubon produced a Family Day at which a naturalist introduced children to live birds).
		"Mac," the director of the Currier from 1977 to 1987, was instrumental in building the Currier's photography collection, continuing a legacy of internationally recognized contributions to the history of photography begun when he was curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the George Eastman House.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/af/03104-43.htm (948 words)

	Currier and Ives
		During the 1840s, Nathaniel Currier produced many memorable and nostalgic lithographic prints of everyday life, notably the heart-warming winter scenes of the northeastern U.S. Nathaniel hired his 21-year-old brother Charles, in 1841, taught him lithography, and in turn Charles developed a new lithographic crayon that he patented and called the "Crayola."
		During the Civil War, the demand for Currier and Ives' lithographs was so high they developed colored stencils to speed up the production process.
		Buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, Currier died first in 1888 and then Ives in 1895.
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