Title: The High Bridge at Harlem, N.Y. : [two additional lines of title.] : 699.
Lithograph, handcolored, 1849.
Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce N.Y.
Small folio - image size 7 15/16 x 12 1/2" (20.1 x 31.7 cm).

Title continues "This magnificent bridge of stone, forms a part of the immense works erected to bring the water of the Croton river to the City of New York. The length of the aqueduct from the Croton river to the City Hall, is 44 1/4 miles, and cost about $13,000,000. : 699." Also under title "Length 1450 ft." left and "Height 114 ft." right.

#2810 in "Currier & Ives Prints. An Illustrated Checklist" by Frederick Conningham.

Currier & Ives was America's longest running printing establishment, publishing over seven-thousand images in a span of seventy-three years. The early history of Currier & Ives follows its founder, Nathaniel Currier, and the first lithographic house of America, William and John Pendleton of Boston. During the early years, Nathaniel Currier ran the firm more like a job press rather than a print publishing house. It was the financial success of their Sinking of the Lexington lithograph, published in the New York Sun, that ultimately changed the course of the company.

James Merritt Ives joined Currier as a bookkeeper in 1852. He quickly became an indispensable member of the firm and in 1857 was made a partner. The name of the company was subsequently changed from N. Currier to Currier & Ives.

The publishing house of Currier & Ives was so synonymous with American culture that Leroy Anderson mentioned it in his song "Sleigh Ride" published in 1948, several decades after the firm had closed.

Condition: Fair condition with water staining in lower and vertical discoloration.