Image credits for the Original Best 50 Top Five
Top 5 Original Best 50 Large folio
#1 Currier & Ives after Eastman Johnson, Husking [Lithograph, 1861]. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
#2 Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (artist), N. Currier, American Forest Scene. Maple Sugaring [Lithograph, 1856]. Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery.
#3 Currier & Ives (after Charles Parsons), Central Park, Winter—The Skating Pond [Lithograph, 1862]. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#4 Currier & Ives (after George H. Durrie), Home to Thanksgiving [Lithograph, 1867]. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
#5 Currier & Ives (after A. F. Tait), Life of a Hunter. ‘A tight fix’ [Lithograph, 1861]. Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (2007.186).
Top 5 Original Best 50 Small Folio
#1 N. Currier, The Express Train [Lithograph, ca. 1847]. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (56.300.1111).
#2 Currier & Ives, American Railroad Scene. Snowbound [Lithograph, 1872]. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
#3 Currier & Ives, Beach Snipe Shooting [Lithograph, 1869]. Courtesy of the Old Print Shop.
#4 Currier & Ives, Ice-boat Race on the Hudson [Lithograph, undated]. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (58.300.239).
#5 Currier & Ives, Central Park in Winter [Lithograph, 1877-94]. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Image credits for the New Best 50 Top Five
Best New 50 Large Folios
#1 N. Currier, The Road—Winter [Lithograph 1853]. Courtesy of the Old Print Shop.
#2 Fanny Palmer (artist), Currier & Ives (publisher), A Midnight Race on the Mississippi [Lithograph, 1860]. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.
#3 Currier & Ives after Eastman Johnson, Husking [Lithograph, 1861]. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
#4 F. F. Palmer (artist), J. M. Ives (lithographer), Currier & Ives (publisher), Across the Continent. “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” [Lithograph, 1868]. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery.
#5 George Durrie (artist), Currier & Ives (publisher), Winter in the Country / Getting Ice [Lithograph, 1864]. Courtesy of the Old Print Shop.
Best New 50 Small Folios
#1 Currier & Ives, American Railroad Scene. Snowbound [Lithograph, 1872]. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
#2 Currier & Ives, Maple Sugaring. Early Spring in the Northern Woods [Lithograph, 1872]. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (58.300.242).
#3 Currier & Ives, Central Park in Winter [Lithograph, 1877-94]. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#4 Currier & Ives, Ice-boat Race on the Hudson [Lithograph, undated]. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (58.300.239).
#5 Currier & Ives, American Homestead Winter [Lithograph, 1868]. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.
Image Credits for the Original Best Fifty Image Gallery and the New Best Fifty Image Gallery
Courtesy of the Amon Carter Museum
Original Best Large Folio #s: 16, 20, 26, 33
New Best Large Folio #s: 24, 38, 48
Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 5
New Best Large Folio #s: 16
Courtesy of Dartmouth College:
Original Best Small Folio #s: 30
Courtesy of the Library of Congress:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 8, 23, 27, 29, 35, 45
Original Best Small Folio #s: 2, 7, 14, 19, 20, 24, 27, 30, 31, 32, 38, 41, 44, 49
New Best Large Folio #s: 31, 36, 44
New Best Small Folio #s: 1, 6, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 38, 39, 43, 45, 47
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 3, 24, 41, 50
Original Best Small Folio #s: 5, 22
New Best Large Folio #s: 7, 15, 27
New Best Small Folio #s: 3, 8, 9
Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 43
Original Best Small Folio #s: 1, 4, 6, 21, 25, 26, 29, 34, 37, 40, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 50
New Best Large Folio #s: 41
New Best Small Folio #s: 2, 4, 7, 27, 41, 42, 46, 48, 49
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art:
Original Best Small Folio #s: 9
New Best Small Folio #s: 36
Courtesy of The Old Print Shop:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 42, 44, 48, 49
Original Best Small Folio #s: 3, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 33, 35, 36, 39, 45
New Best Large Folio #s: 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 39, 42, 43, 45, 49
New Best Small Folio #s: 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 33, 34, 37, 40, 50
Courtesy of the Smithsonian:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 47
New Best Large Folio #s: 22
Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum:
New Best Large Folio #s: 46
Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
Original Best Large Folio #s: 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 19, 30, 39, 40, 46
Original Best Small Folio #s: 28
New Best Large Folio #s: 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 19, 25, 30, 34, 35, 40, 50
New Best Small Folio #s: 10, 12, 35
Courtesy of a private collection:
Original Best Large Folio #s: 10, 13
New Best Large Folio #s: 8, 17, 23, 47
New Best Small Folio #s: 29, 31, 36