Broadway, New York: From the Western Union Telegraph Building Looking North

Currier and Ives was a New York printmaking firm that produced hand-colored lithographs for mass consumption between 1857 and 1907. Working primarily in narrative scenes of American life, landscape, and genre subjects, the partnership created some of the era's most widely distributed popular images, establishing lithography as a primary vehicle for democratic visual culture. The firm's prolific output and accessible pricing made prints affordable to working and middle-class households across the nation. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA in historical surveys of American art.