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Death of Zachary Taylor

Currier and Ives -

12th President, Zachary Taylor on his deathbed in July 1850.

Member of the Whig party. Lived from November 24, 1784 to July 9, 1850 (aged 65) President from March 4, 1849 to July 9, 1850 Former Major General of the 1st Infantry Regiment, US Army (1846-1849) Vice President: Millard Fillmore

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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