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Title
Ostrich Cart
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim
Date Created and/or Issued
1896 (issued)
Contributing Institution
Anaheim Public Library
Collection
Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information
Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.
Description
Accession number: P91
See also accession number P780.
Ostrich cart at the Coronado Beach Race Track; image shows Anaheim barber Willard A. Frantz and R.F.D. postman Frank Eastman in cart drawn by harnessed ostrich (named either Napoleon or Josephine); photo inscribed with "The first trained Ostrich in the United States" across the bottom in white text, above "W. Frank and F. Eastman Trainers and Owners Anaheim" in black text.
Type
image
Format
4 Photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
1 Negative : 4 x 5 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1199p8ks
Subject
Frantz, Willard A. aka Billy Frantz or Professor Frantz--1858-1956
Eastman, Frank--act. 1896
Coronado Beach Race Track--California
Racetracks--California
Recreation--1857-1899
Transportation
Ostriches
Time Period
Recreation -- 1857-1899
Place
Coronado Beach Race Track
California.
Racetracks

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