New York Ferry Boat
Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this marine view, a ferryboat moves left, smoke billows from its central stack, and two large American flags stream backwards, with passengers seen on the decks. Densely packed masts of moored ships in the right background indicate a site near the piers and docks that line Manhattan's southern tip.
The New York firm of Currier & Ives grew from a printing business established by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) in 1835. Expansion led, in 1857, to a partnership with James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). The firm operated until 1907, lithographing over 4,000 subjects for distribution across America and Europe with popular categories including landscape, marines, natural history, genre, caricatures, portraits, history and foreign views. Until the 1880s, images were printed in monochrome, then hand-colored by women who worked for the company.
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