Like many big cities, Washington, D.C., had several large markets where residents shopped daily for foodstuffs. Center Market, Washington’s largest, was built in 1871. Located at 7th Street and ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

A Collector's Guide for Currier & Ives Dinnerware: Manufactured by Royal China Company ... Chicago Ceramics & Glass: an Illustrated History from 1871 to 1933. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society; ...

and Currier and Ives prints of fishing, hunting, and horseracing. Some 4,000 toys dating from the colonial period to the present are a special strength of the collections. National Museum of American ...

He has given lectures around the country on various topics, including natural history prints, Currier & Ives prints, prints of Niagara Falls, and most recently on maps and views of the American West.

Nineteenth-century American prints, including a Currier and Ives lithograph. Non-European and non-American 19th and 20th-century prints and objects, including Chinese scrolls, a woodblock attributed ...

Approximately 227 years ago, in 1797, George Washington became the first U.S. president to voluntarily cede the presidency to ...

In 1921, Charles E. Ives, a wealthy co-proprietor of the New York life-insurance firm Ives & Myrick, launched a bid to ...

In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one of the largest in the history of the School ... pewter hollowware, Currier and Ives prints ...

The exhibition includes prints by Kurz & Allison, Currier & Ives, and others, which offer a wide range of ... Curated by associate professor of art history Bradley Bailey, Ph.D., and students Jordan ...

The Currier & Ives Scenic Byway will take you across covered ... New Hampshire is rich with attractions for history buffs, but none as unique as Mystery Hill. Called “America’s Stonehenge ...

By Peter Hummers The 2012 Criterion Collection cut of Michael Cimino’s 1980 box-office bomb is actually quite binge-worthy!