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GUIDE TO THE
NEWLY RECORDED
CURRIER & IVES PRINT LIST
- Entries appear in alphabetical order by title, as the title appears on the print. In instances that a print lacks a title, an entry for the print appears under the heading "No title."
Subtitle and additional text
- The subtitle, and additional text, appears directly following the
title as it appears on the print.
Stock number
- Occasionally printmakers prined a small number in the bottom margin of a print. This number, the stock number, was used in the identification of prints.
Measurements
- The paramaters used in assigning size categories are as follows:
- Very small: up to about 7 x 9 in., or 18 x 23 cm.
- Small: approx. 8.5 x 12.5 in. (Gale defines "small" to be 7 x 9 in. to 9 x 14 in., or 18 x 23 cm. to 23 x 36 cm.)
- Medium: from 9 x 14 in. to 14 x 20 in., or 23 x 36 cm. to 36 x 51 cm.
- Large: over 14 x 20 in., or 36 x 51 cm.
Vignette
- Images which are not within a ruled, printed border are classified as vignettes.
Publisher
- When a publisher is designated on a print, the published is listed with one of the following abbreviations.
- N.C. = Nathaniel Currier
- C.&I. = Currier & Ives
- C.C. = Charles Currier
1834-35 Stoddart & Currier 137 Broadway 1835 Nathaniel Currier 1 Wall Street 1836-37 Nathaniel Currier 148 Nassau Street 1838-56 Nathaniel Currier 152 Nassau and 2 Spruce Street 1857-65 Currier & Ives 152 Nassau Street and 2 Spruce Street 1866-72 Currier & Ives 152 Nassau and 33 Spruce Street 1872-74 Currier & Ives 125 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street 1874-77 Currier & Ives 123 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce 1877-94 Currier & Ives 115 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street 1894-96 Currier & Ives 108 Fulton and 33 Spruce Street 1896-1907 Currier & Ives 33 Spruce Street Description
- A brief description of the print. Frequently, this section includes features which distinguish the print from a similar print already recorded in "Conn." or "Gale." "Conn." is shorthand for Frederic A. Conningham's Currier & Ives Prints: An Illustrated Checklist last updated in 1983. "Gale" refers to Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonne published by the Gale Research Company in 1984.
AHPCS Entry Number
- A unique entry number has been assigned to each print. The three letter code indicates contributor of the information. This code is followed by a number sequence in the order which the prints were added to the list. Contributors are abbreviated as follows:
- AAS American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)
- PPS Philadelphia Print Shop (Philadelphia, PA)
- RUD John and Barbara Rudisill (Worton, MD)
- THM Thomas H. Moody (Nobleboro, ME)
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- Occasionally printmakers prined a small number in the bottom margin of a print. This number, the stock number, was used in the identification of prints.