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., 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.
Date
1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Recreation [8094.F]
