The prints depicted a variety of images of American life, including winter scenes, horse-racing images, portraits of people, and pictures of ships, sporting events, patriotic, and historical events, including ferocious battles of the American Civil War, the building of cities and railroads, and Lincoln's assassination. It is important to note that Currier and Ives also produced many prints that were inherently racist in nature, particularly in a series of prints called the Darktown Comics. They depicted African Americans in very demeaning way, making a very clear mockery of them to their white counterparts. These types of images were incredibly popular in the 19th century and thus had a very high demand, and with that many of these images are still readily available to view and even still purchase in our modern day.