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Title: Point Breeze Park, schottisch
Description: Cover illustration is a lithograph, tinted with two stones, showing several spectators at a trotting race at the park on the Penrose Ferry Bridge Road near Point Breeze. In the right, several men, in top hats, stand in the judge's stand while male and female club members mob the piazzas of the two-story main clubhouse as the two trotters pulling sulkies race past on the course. A few spectators stand on the grounds and landscaped paths. Also shows a second smaller clubhouse building. 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., Artist: Lith. from nature by J. Queen; Printer: T. Sinclair's lith., Phila., Price printed on recto: 38 Cts. Nett., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 610, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 2:85 and 15:3., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Corrie, George J., composer
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Poi 10074.F (Doret)

Title: Sherman Black Hawk. Appeared at the U.S. Agricultural Fair, held at West Phila. Octr. 8th 1856 and took the first premium, of $200.00 competing with horses from all parts of the United States Sherman Black Hawk foaled May 30, 1845 the property of B.J. Myrick, Bridgport Vt. Pedigree. Sire, Vermont Black Hawk, dam by Young Hamiltonian, he by Bishop's Hamiltonian, by imported Messenger, Grand Dam by imported Matchum. Sherman Black Hawk is now owned by D. A. Bennitt, Birdport, Vt. and Dura Warren, Worcester, Mass
Description: Racing print showing the black Morgan trotting horse racing around the track at the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held October 7-11, 1856. The driver wears a derby and plaid vest. In the background, several spectators watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand, the tents for the President and Marshall of the fair, and a tree adorned with the flag of the U.S. Agricultural Society are also visible inside the track. 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.", Not in Wainwright., Duplicate prints with variant hand-coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 693, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 655 H 787a & Bc 655 H 787b
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 655 H 787a

Title: Tacony and Mac. Hunting Park Course Phila. June 2nd 1853 Purse $1500 mile heats best 3 in 5 under the saddle. Wm. Woodruffs Ro G Tacony…….1.1.1 Jas. Ward…..B. G. Mac……2.2dr. Time 2.25 1/2_2:25 1/2
Description: Racing print showing the jockeyed horses on the race track at Nicetown Lane and Old York Road in North Philadelphia. The eight-year old strawberry roan Tacony takes the lead over Mac. The jockeys wear a red cap and vest (Tacony) and a green cap and jacket (Mac). A barn, exercise yard, and residential building are visible in the background. The Hunting Park Association which sponsored races for the encouragement of the breeding of fine horses was established in 1828., Names of the horses printed below the image., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 741, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 07 H 817b
Creator: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Date: c1853
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 07 H 817b

Title: Lady Suffolk and Lady Moscow. Hunting Park Course Phila. June 13th 1850 Purse $250 mile heats best 3 in 5 to skeleton wagons. Lady Suffolk, 2.1.1.1 Lady Moscow 1..2.2.2. Time 2:31_2:33_2:39_2:33
Description: Racing print showing the grey mare Lady Suffolk leading Lady Moscow in the harness race on the track at Nicetown Lane and Old York Road in North Philadelphia. Suffolk draws a red sulky and Moscow draws a blue sulky. Hillside and trees are visible in the background. The Hunting Park Association which sponsored races for the encouragement of the breeding of fine horses was established in 1828. Hunting Park was established in 1808 and the land sold in 1854 for use as a public park., Names of the horses printed below the image., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 426, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 07 H 817a, LCP exhibit catalog: Made in America, entry #67Made in America
Date: c1850
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 07 H 817a

Title: Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856
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.", 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]

Title: Thomas M. Harris & Co. sole manufacturers Philadelphia The winning shoe
Description: Advertisement showing a boy brandishing a flag reading "Buy Standard Tip Shoes For Your Children" and using a gigantic "Standard Tip" shoe as a sulky in a harness race. His vehicle is pulled by horses "Tip and "Top" that leave a pileup of horses in the dust behind them. In the background, the judge's booth adorned with the "Standard" flag is visible along the fenced track next to cheering spectators. Image includes the company trademark which reads "Look For This Trademark on every Shoe. 'Our Sole Leather Tip Best in The World.' Thomas M. Harris & Co. Trade Marks Reg. Aug. 1882 & July 1884." Also contains advertising text on the verso., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00049, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 252, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards, Bertram & Co. assumed the lithographic shop of F.C. Paxson & Co. at 439 Chestnut Street circa 1885.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Trotting cracks of Philadelphia returning from the race at Point Breeze Park 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
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., 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]

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