Word: lves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Age when, as Mr. Drepperd points out, there was a great demand for cheap pictures both original and reproductive. Lithographs at that time were the rotogravure supplements of our present-day Sunday newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...