In the next year or so I will be looking for a home for a collection of Currier
and Ives prints put together in the 1920's. They could go under the hammer, but
as a museum "professional" (historyAB antropology MA and intern work as an
undergraduate) I'd rather get them into a public collection. Subject is
primarily western americana. About 30 ( I need to count them and do an inventory
in the next month or two.) At least 6 large folios with some the well known way
west, yosemite stuff.  Includes, I recall 4 of the darktown series. Generally
the prints are in good condition, although they have not been archivally framed.
They are largely in period frames. I'd like them to be donated as a set, rather
than pieced out. Prints are currently located in Alexandria, Va. and no, I never
took pictures of them. (Have you taken pictures of things in your parents
homes?)
 
If these were Currier maritime prints I'd know the collecting institutions, but
I don't know the western collections.
 
Please reply privately,
 
Benj. A.G.Fuller
seabag enterprises
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