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Currier & Ives

Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives, publishers (American, 19th century)

The Union Volunteer, 1861, lithograph with hand coloring

The DAC's holdings include American prints from the 19th century, many works from the etching revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and others by more recent American printmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the 1990s the scope of the collection expanded to include acquisitions of 19th-century reproductive prints useful as primary sources for undergraduates, faculty, and visiting scholars studying the nation's cultural and social history. Other DAC pages describe the museum's holdings of:

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