The 'America on Stone' Collection comprises 1,686 prints acquired by Harry T. Peters (1881-1948), a wealthy New York coal merchant and sportsman, in the course of his research on 19th-century lithography. His first book, Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People (1929), covered the country's best-known firm, but Peters also gathered prints representing the work of other lithographers, and he published America on Stone: the Other Printmakers to the American People in 1931.The collection donated to the Smithsonian in 1960 includes examples of the prints and printmakers identified in that book. |