Celebrated Boston team mill boy and Blondine, owned and driven by John Shepard, esq: record 2:22 – Historic Reproduction
![Celebrated Boston team mill boy and Blondine, owned and driven by John Shepard, esq: record 2:22, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1882 and 1890] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/10076035db03-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Celebrated Boston team mill boy and Blondine, owned and driven by John Shepard, esq: record 2:22 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Celebrated Boston team mill boy and Blondine, owned and driven by John Shepard, esq: record 2:22
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Mill Boy and Blondine, trotting horses owned and driven by John Shepard, are the celebrated pair shown here, and the title credits them with a record time of 2:22 for the mile. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published the lithograph sometime between 1882 and 1890, produced many portraits of famous trotters during the years when harness racing drew large crowds. Prints like this one helped make such horses household names, and the record time in the title marks the speed that earned them that attention.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1882 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0967 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,034 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175417 |
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