Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856. [graphic] / Js. Queen, delt.
Publisher Philadelphia: P. S. Duval & Co. lith. press
Date 1856
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones; 22 x 33 cm. (8.5 x 13 in.)
Description Scene showing a harness race at the track on the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held at the Powleton grounds in West Philadelphia on October 7-11, 1856. Spectators, including men, women, and children, a few cheering, crowd outside of the track in the foreground. In the background, throngs of spectators (shown as a smudgy mass) watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand and several tents, including one waving the flag for the "President," are also visible inside the track. Also shows the tower of a building in the distance. The United States Agricultural Society, formed in 1852 at a convention called by 12 state agricultural societies, strove" to embody in one central Association, the valuable information already obtained by various local Societies, and to establish a more intimate connection between them; to correspond with foreign Societies, and to diffuse a knowledge of their most important Agricultural improvements and discoveries; and, in various other ways, to aid the promotion of this noble art."
Is referenced by Wainwright 330
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 678
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3.
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:28 and Philadelphiana - Fairs.
LOC holds artist's study. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Drawings-USAgricSoc].
Subject United States Agricultural Society.
Agricultural exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse racing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W330 [P.2187]
Accession number P.2187