Ellen Thayer Fisher. In 1881, his company employed more than one hundred women. In June 1886 Prang published a series of prints under the title Prang's War Pictures: Aquarelle Facsimile Prints. These became popular and helped inspire a genre of such prints, particularly the series issued by Kurz and Allison. However, Prang aimed at a more modern and individual treatment, as opposed to the panoramic style of Kurz and Allison, and before them, Currier and Ives. In 1897 L. Prang & Company merged with the Taber Art Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts, creating the Taber-Prang Company and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. Prang died of pleuropneumonia on June 15, 1909, at the Glendale Sanitarium in Los Angeles. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Louie Awards Since 1988 the Greeting Card Association, the trade association representing the greeting card industry in the US, has held an annual award ceremony for the best greetings cards published that year. The awards are called Louies in recognition of Louis Prang. The most successful winner of Louie Awards is the California-based company Meri Meri. Between 1991 and 2005 the company won 81 Awards including 13 in 2005. Personal life On November 1, 1851, Prang married Rosa Gerber, of Bern; she died on June 2, 1898, and on April 15, 1900, he married Mary Dana Hicks. Lithographs See also Notes References Bethany Neubauer (February 2000). "Prang, Louis". American National Biography Online. Taber Prang Art Co. External links The Winterthur Library Overview of an archival collection on Louis Prang Louis Prang & Company Collection The Boston Public Library's Louis Prang & Company Collection on Flickr.com Prang maps at the British Library The Louis Prang papers, 1848–1932, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1824 births 1909 deaths Businesspeople from Wrocław American printers German-American Forty-Eighters People from the Province of Silesia Businesspeople from Boston Roxbury, Boston Greeting cards Paper products 19th-century American businesspeople Georgists