Nathaniel Currier and James Ives created a collection of thousands of lithographs and prints which reflect the life in the fledgling America from 1840 onwards.
The prints include pictures of newsworthy events and subjects relating to American life: sports, games, home life, religion, children, hunting, fishing, entertainment, trains, ships, views of cities, and so forth. Currier & Ives used all sorts of sources for their prints, including staff artists who are unknown today, as well as a group of more famous artists such as Louis Maurer, Thomas Worth, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait and others.