Inaugural Meeting of the Chicago and Trotting Club...1878 – Historic Reproduction
![Inaugural Meeting of the Chicago and Trotting Club...1878, Chicago : Journal-Pr[inting] & Eng[raving], 1878. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/20/207e1fa6c1cb-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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Step back in time with Inaugural Meeting of the Chicago and Trotting Club...1878, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Inaugural Meeting of the Chicago and Trotting Club...1878
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The sheet's heading announces the inaugural meeting of a Chicago trotting club in 1878, and at about seven feet tall and printed in color, it was clearly meant to be read from a distance. Trotting, the sport of harness horses racing against the clock, drew large crowds to tracks across the Midwest in the late 1870s, and a new club's first gathering would have been a public event. The poster came from the Journal Printing and Engraving firm in Chicago, a shop working during the city's rebuilding after the 1871 fire. The catalog record relies on old caption data, so the meeting's specific details are not recorded here.
| Created / published | Chicago : Journal-Pr[inting] & Eng[raving], 1878. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 209 x 109 cm. |
| Notes | Jeffery (John B.) Pr. & Eng. (Chicago). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Journal Printing and Engraving (Chicago). II. Title. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 782 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128385 |
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