Genre and comic prints by Currier and Ives: images of people and animals smoking, including children imitating smoking, looking sick after first trying smoking, and women of questionable virtue smoking in bed; caricatures of various people and groups, including John Fremont, U.S. Grant and Queen Victoria, and Afro-Americans and Catholics; includes views of horse racing, including harness racing, at "Coony Island" with African American participants; horse grooming and shoeing; two images depicting before and after a dog fight; African American billiards players; an African American fire-brigade; African American tourists on a wharf; African American "swell" getting cheated out of his cigar by a child; trade cards and signs including one in the form of a rebus and one of "Tobacco Jack" who is made up of tobacco leaves and barrels and various tobacco products and an advertising card for a display of trained seals, where the seals are depicted smoking; other images: frontier life in Arkansas; Pocahontas saving John Smith; frogs and owls smoking or talking; an elf being chased by a person on horseback; a cupid holding a cigar; a woman holding a horseshoe, with the legend "Good Luck"; a gold miner heading west; man shopping for a suit.
Collection also includes photostat of image titled "The Electric Light" showing Thomas Edison and Charles F. Brush touching cigar tips under arch of a glowing horseshoe.
Includes prints by Nathaniel Currier and one print published by Joseph Koehler.
Includes lithographs by John Cameron, King and Murphy, and Thomas Worth, published by Currier & Ives. Also includes an image by Bufford Lith. Co. which was not published by Currier & Ives.
Advertisement for trained seal show has on verso a testimonial regarding the show from Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Indexes/finding aids (note)
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Author
Currier & Ives, publisher.
Title
Lithographs depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic] / Currier & Ives.