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George Washington - 1st U.S. President

Currier and Ives - Washington at Mount Vernon

Portrait of George Washington, first President of the United States.

Non-partisan

Lived from February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799 (aged 67)

President from April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775-1783) Vice President: John Adams

Currier and Ives was a New York printmaking firm that operated from 1857 until 1907. Nathaniel Currier was a printmaker who started the business and James Ives, who started as the firm's bookkeeper, became Currier's partner in 1857. Neither man was an artist. The prints were drawn and lithographed by other persons, such as J. E. Butterworth, George H. Durrie, Louis Maurer, Frances or "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer, Charles Parsons, Napoleon Sarony, and Thomas Worth to name a few. Nathaniel Currier died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895. The firm carried on until 1907 under the direction of their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives.



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