Harness Handicap, 1918 – Historic Reproduction
(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 historic photograph of Harness Handicap, 1918. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harness Handicap, 1918
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Titled *Harness Handicap*, this 1918 glass negative captures a race in which trotters or pacers pulled light two-wheeled carts called sulkies. Handicapping adjusted each horse's starting position or distance to even out the contest, so a slower animal could still hope to finish near the front. The negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency whose early twentieth-century news photographs cover sports, politics and everyday life. The title is noted as unverified, so the track and the specific race remain uncertain, but the image still shows a sport that drew large crowds in that period.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,903 × 3,359 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28175 |
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