VIRTUAL LECTURE SERIES

Friday, November 12, 3pm

Lecture #2: America Imagined: How Currier & Ives Pictured Nineteenth-Century America Bryan LeBeau, Professor, Georgetown University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Author 

$12 (members $10)

LeBeau examines how Currier & Ives created a usable past for the new nation, and how the company pictured urban and rural life, America’s pride of place, the frontier, the family, and Victorian ideals including how Thanksgiving and Christmas were presented in a Currier & Ives America.