Location: Powelton grounds in West Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date
1856.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W330.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W330 [P.2187]
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.", 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].
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
1856
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W330 [P.2187]
Proof for diploma containing allegorical and agricultural vignettes and scenes. Vignettes show female figures representing spring and fall; a cherubic figure with a cornucopia; and a group of sheep and cows. Scene shows farmers leading an oxen-driven cart piled with hay down a dirt road. A woman and children sit on the mound and a man on horseback leading another horse travels in the background., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Dear Jim., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 184, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Philadelphia Society
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
1860
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Philadelphia Society
