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Title: Jay Eye See
Creator: Clay & Richmond, printer
Vacuum Oil Company, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1884
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement by Vacuum Oil Company in Rochester, New York. Foreground includes an image of a black trotting horse named Jay Eye See pulling a sulky and driver. The driver is shown sitting up straight in his seat and holding onto the reins of the horse as it trots forward with all legs in the air. Background includes images of trees and an image of another sulky driver and horse.
"Jaye Yesee. Time 2:10 3/4." --text, written in pencil in left corner of print. "Photo-oleograph by Clay & Richmond, Buffalo. N.Y." --text, left corner below margin. "Copyrighted 1884 by Clay & Richmond, Buffalo. N.Y." --text, right corner below margin. "Best Time. 2.10 3/4 at Providence, R.I. Sept. 15th 1883." --text, bottom left corner. "Jay Eye See." --text, bottom center. "Published by Vacuum Oil Company. Rochester, N.Y." --text, bottom right corner.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 48.58 x 61.91 cm (19 1/8 x 24 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_SPO_002941
420161
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5605
Subject: Horse racing
Horse racing--1880-1890
Race horses
Harness racing
Trotting (Horsemanship)
Vacuum Oil Company
Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Place: Providence (R.I.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sports & Leisure
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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