The City of New York
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This bird's-eye view of New York looks north from the Battery.
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 generally printed in monochrome, then hand-colored by women who worked for the company. In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Currier & Ives began to print in color.
