Currier and Ives "Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre Washington, D.C. April 14th 1865”

Currier and Ives.  “Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre Washington, D.C. April 14th 1865.”  New York: Currier & Ives, 1865.  Small folio; 8 x 12 ¼..  Lithograph.  Uncolored.  Several short tears into image and margins skillfully repaired.  Large chip in left hand margin and just into image filled with image in-painted by hand in facsimile as best as possible.  Bottom right hand margin and corner filled with matching paper.  Else, fine condition.  C:291.   A dramatic print of the assassination of Lincoln issued by the famous Currier & Ives lithographic firm of New York.  From 1834 to 1907 Nathaniel Currier, and then Currier and Ives, provided for the American people a pictorial history of their country’s growth from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.  The firm produced two types of prints–”rush” stock prints quickly made to provide information about newsworthy events, and “stock” prints depicting every conceivable subject relating to American lif