Best 50 Image Credits

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.


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