Image of horse-trotting race occurring near Turner's Hotel on Rope Ferry Road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Image depicts a crowded scene of eighteen horse-drawn carriages passing by a large two-story colonial style roadhouse (Turner Hotel) as people in the background watch them pass by. The eighteen horses are all driven by fashionably dressed men, and the horses are individually numbered and identified below the image. Background also includes images of barns, trees, and shrubbery. From left-to-right names of horses listed in key are: “1. Fanny Allen. 2. Bay Mary. 3. Ironsides and Mate. 4. Harry D. 5. Black Maggie. 6. Lady Lightfoot. 7. Sunbeam. 8. Young Trafalgar. 9. Victor Patchen. 10. Bay George. 11. Mack. 12. Red Cloud. 13. Victoria. 14. Sun-flower. 15. General Birney and Mate. 16. Moscow. 17. Joe Parker Pony. 18. Napoleon.” --text, below image. “Copyright Secured.” --text, left corner below margin. “Trotting Cracks of Philadelphia Returning from the Race at Point Breeze Park, Having a Brush Past Turner’s Hotel, Rope Ferry Road, Philadelphia, 1870.”--text, bottom center of print. “Respectfully Dedicated to the Lovers of Horses and the Sporting Public in general by the Publisher.” --text, bottom center of print. “Published by H. [Henry] Pharazyn, 1725 Lombard Street. Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1870, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." --text, bottom of print.
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1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 56.83 x 72.07 cm (22 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.)
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