Research Catalog
Lithographs depicting smoking and related subjects
- Title
- Lithographs depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic] / Currier & Ives.
- Author
- Currier & Ives, publisher.
- Publication
- ca. 1841-1894.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 42 prints : lithograph; 38.9 x 49.5 or smaller
- 1 photomechanical print ;
- Summary
- Genre and comic prints by Currier and Ives: images of people and animals smoking, including children imitating smoking, looking sick after first trying smoking, and women of questionable virtue smoking in bed; caricatures of various people and groups, including John Fremont, U.S. Grant and Queen Victoria, and Afro-Americans and Catholics; includes views of horse racing, including harness racing, at "Coony Island" with African American participants; horse grooming and shoeing; two images depicting before and after a dog fight; African American billiards players; an African American fire-brigade; African American tourists on a wharf; African American "swell" getting cheated out of his cigar by a child; trade cards and signs including one in the form of a rebus and one of "Tobacco Jack" who is made up of tobacco leaves and barrels and various tobacco products and an advertising card for a display of trained seals, where the seals are depicted smoking; other images: frontier life in Arkansas; Pocahontas saving John Smith; frogs and owls smoking or talking; an elf being chased by a person on horseback; a cupid holding a cigar; a woman holding a horseshoe, with the legend "Good Luck"; a gold miner heading west; man shopping for a suit.
- Collection also includes photostat of image titled "The Electric Light" showing Thomas Edison and Charles F. Brush touching cigar tips under arch of a glowing horseshoe.
- Subjects
- Prints > American > 19th century
- Lithographs
- Trade cards
- Signs
- Rebuses
- Genre prints
- Allegories
- Advertisements
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Women > Tobacco use
- Wharves
- Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
- Tobacco pipes
- Temperance
- Streets
- Smoking
- Signs and symbols
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
- Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890
- Grant, Ulysses S (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Pocahontas, -1617
- Smith, John, 1580-1631
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
- African Americans
- Animal grooming
- Animals in human situations
- Arrivals & departures
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Billiards
- Horseshoeing
- Catholics > Clergy
- Children smoking
- Cigars
- Cupids
- Dogfighting
- Dogs
- Eating & drinking
- Electric lighting
- Elves
- Families
- Fire fighters
- Fortune
- Free love
- Frogs
- Frontier and pioneer life > Arkansas
- Gambling
- Gold rushes > California
- Harness racing
- Horse racing
- Horsemanship
- Horses
- Horseshoes
- Indians of North America
- Kings and rulers
- Soldiers > United States
- Monkeys
- Music
- Owls
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Presidents > United States > Election
- Racial stereotypes
- Genre/Form
- Advertisements.
- Allegories.
- Genre prints.
- Rebuses.
- Signs.
- Trade cards.
- Lithographs.
- Prints – American – 19th century.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Includes prints by Nathaniel Currier and one print published by Joseph Koehler.
- Includes lithographs by John Cameron, King and Murphy, and Thomas Worth, published by Currier & Ives. Also includes an image by Bufford Lith. Co. which was not published by Currier & Ives.
- Advertisement for trained seal show has on verso a testimonial regarding the show from Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Detailed finding aid available.
- Call Number
- Arents 95-682
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F310
- Author
- Currier & Ives, publisher.
- Title
- Lithographs depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic] / Currier & Ives.
- Imprint
- ca. 1841-1894.
- Indexes
- Detailed finding aid available.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cameron, John, approximately 1828- LithographerCurrier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888. LithographerWorth, Thomas, 1834-1917. Lithographer
- Research Call Number
- Arents 95-682