The Valley of the Susquehanna
After a painting by E. Blummer American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this Pennsylvania view, a family of three sit and look towards the Susquehanna river.
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 Nathaniel's brother Charles's brother-in-law, 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 at home.