Monmouth Horse Shoe jumping – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Monmouth Horse Shoe jumping in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Monmouth Horse Shoe jumping
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The title places this scene at Monmouth, and "Horse Shoe" may refer to the layout of the course or the obstacle, though the record does not say so. Jumping contests like this drew large crowds in the early twentieth century, when show jumping and hunt-style competitions were popular at country clubs and race grounds across the Northeast. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose News Service photographers, working in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, recorded sports, society and daily news on glass plates like this one. The date is not recorded, and the title comes from unverified Bain captions, so the exact event remains uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 939 × 709 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11871 |
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