Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People (America in Two Centuries Series) Two Vol. Set

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Summary: Currier and Ives Prints --to love and hate
Review: The first and best thing you need to know about the Currier and Ives prints is that MANY functioned as news media. Before United Press, which gives out instant news 24 house a day, Currier and Ives would work out a print on some news topic and it was literally carried from one newspaper to the next, "Pony Express" style. And like today, there was bad news and good, and as much as could be was compressed into one print. Some are on some ugly topics. The prints,a big old dusty book we had around the house, when I was a kid (that would be around 1952) provided endless hours of fascination. I still have the book, and still take it out and just look at it. There is always much detail that you missed, it can never be boring. It is truly a treasure.