Library Friends Sponsor Free Visual Lecture "Currier & Ives: A Tribute to Mothers & Daughters"

Friends of the Library will present a FREE visual lecture “Currier & Ives: A Tribute to Mothers & Daughters” with guest speaker Mickey Maxwell Cohen on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 2:00pm at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden City, NY. This public program is funded by The Friends of the Garden city Public Library. Seating & parking is limited and on a first-come basis. No tickets are required. Please, no busses. For directions phone: (516) 742-8405 or go to www.gardencitypl.org.

Join this Mother’s Day Special honoring the 19th century female. Learn the history of famed “Printmakers to the American Public,” Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives who labored during much of the 19th century to produce over 7,000 reasonably priced color lithographs for the general public. These lithographs left a cherished pictorial legacy of America’s 19th century female persona, featuring homes & house decoration, family life, fashions, social activities & feminine “correctness.” View some of the most loved & sought-after prints ... those that depicted old-fashioned life. Discover how to distinguish between an original print and modern reproduction.

Mickey Maxwell Cohen is retired from his role as Chairman of the Department of Science & Oceanography at Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park. He has given natural history-related courses for 18 years at the New School for Social Research in NYC. Mr. Cohen has been a longtime Currier & Ives collector as well as the series author of “The Story Behind the Picture” for the New York Chronicle.