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[An Ostrich as a trotting horse] – Historic Reproduction

[An Ostrich as a trotting horse], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[An Ostrich as a trotting horse], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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Few pictures in the Detroit Publishing Company collection show an animal quite like this one: an ostrich harnessed and posed as though it were a trotting horse. The record places it, possibly, at the Florida Ostrich Farm in Jacksonville, a tourist attraction where visitors could see the birds up close and buy plumes, a popular luxury trim in the decades before 1920. The Detroit Publishing Company sold views like this one as postcards and souvenir prints to travelers, so the staged joke was meant for a public eager for novelty scenes of southern life. The glass negative, a gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, preserves the image from the era when such pictures were printed in quantity.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly at Florida Ostrich Farm in Jacksonville. 9517" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75076

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