The great race for the Western stakes 1870 – Antique Print
(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 images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The great race for the Western stakes 1870. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The great race for the Western stakes 1870
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This lithograph takes its title from horse racing, with "the great race" and "the Western stakes" framing a contest for a prize. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published it around 1870, sold many prints that used sporting language to comment on public affairs, and this one belongs to its run of political cartoons from the 1870s. The period was shaped by the completed transcontinental railroad and the postwar push to settle and claim lands west of the Mississippi. Viewers should look closely at the figures and details, since the title alone suggests a satirical reading of competition over western prospects.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1870. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 25.1 x 35.5 cm. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1870-1880.Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title from item. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2863 Weitenkampf, p. 161 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-1. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,039 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174642 |
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