There's a happy feeling Nothing in the world can buy, When they pass around the chocolate And the pumpkin pie It'll nearly be like a picture print By Currier and Ives These wonderful things are the things We remember all through our lives! Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, Ring ting tingling too Come on, it's lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you, Outside the snow is falling And friends are calling "Yoo hoo," Come on, it's lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you. --"Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson
“The Road–Winter.” O. Knirsch. Currier. 1853.
from Currier & Ives Chronicles of America. John Lowell Pratt, ed. Promontory Press, New York. 1968.
From 1834 till 1907, The print shop “Currier & Ives” produced in excess of 1 million lithographs which included more than 7500 different titles.
Currier & Ives prints were among the household decorations considered appropriate for a proper home by Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, authors of American Woman’s Home (1869): “The great value of pictures for the home would be, after all, in their sentiment. They should express the sincere ideas and tastes of the household and not the tyrannical dicta of some art critic or neighbor.” ❤️
Wonderful! And I wholeheartedly concur.