Age-of-Iron Man-as-he-Expects-to-Be 1869

"The Age of Iron. Man as he Expects to be", an 1869 lithograph print published by Currier and Ives (152 Nassau St., New York).

This is a satirical anti-feminist caricature of a wife going out for an evening, leaving her husband to look after the baby at home and sew. The gender-role reversal extends to the servants, where the carriage-driving servants are female, while the one washing clothes is male (the opposite of the usual situation of the time).

Bibliographic information at LoC:

TITLE: The age of iron: Man as he expects to be

CALL NUMBER: PGA - Currier & Ives--Age of iron: (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-1922 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-701 (b&w film copy neg.)

SUMMARY: Husband sitting by a child in a cradle and sewing as a male servant does laundry. A well-dressed woman prepares to get into a carriage driven by another woman.

MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1869.

CREATOR: Currier & Ives.

NOTES: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0068.

Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 379.

SUBJECTS:

Housework--1860-1870.

Relations between the sexes--1860-1870.

Men--Domestic life--1860-1870.

Women--Domestic life--1860-1870.

FORMAT: Lithographs 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph 3b49805 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b49805 (b&w film copy neg) cph 3a04617 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04617