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Contributor Pharazyn, H., copyright holder.
Title Trotting cracks of Philadelphia returning from the race at Point Breeze Park, [graphic] : Having a brush past[sic] Turner's Hotel, Rope Ferry Road, Philadelphia, 1870. Respectfully dedicated to the lovers of horses and the sporting public in general by the publisher.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by H. Pharazyn, 1725 Lombard Street
Date 1870
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 60 x 74 cm (23.5 x 29.25 in.)
Description View depicting eighteen trotting horse teams racing on a dirt path passed the South Philadelphia hotel, surrounded by lush trees and near an open stable. White men stand on the covered porch and converse and watch the teams including one steered by a one-armed gentleman. Near the stable, a white boy and an African American man, probably a stablehand, wave their hats at the racers. Contains a key to the names of all the race horses below the image. The park, established in 1855 by the Point Breeze Park Association of sportsmen, promoted trotting races as agricultural exhibitions to circumvent an 1817 city ban of horse racing. The park was sold to a private owner in 1901 and later sold for an amusement park in 1912.
Is referenced by PMA, Philadelphia: Three centuries of American art, 333
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1870, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Copyrighted by H. Pharazyn.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 760
LCP exhibition catalogue: Philadelphia revisions #40.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1974, p. 58-59.
Purchase 1974.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Turner's Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse racing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stablehands -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Point Breeze Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Rope Ferry Road (Philadelphia, Pa.)
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Printer Pharazyn, Henry, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Recreation [8094.F]
Accession number 8094.F