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Currier and Ives -

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Martin Van Buren and Charles F. Adams

8th President, Martin Van Buren

Democratic

Lived from December 5, 1782 to July 24, 1862 (aged 79)

President from March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1841

Former 8th Vice President of the United States

Vice President: Richard Mentor Johnson

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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