Mineola, race track, racing ostrich – 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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A window into the past: Mineola, race track, racing ostrich, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mineola, race track, racing ostrich
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A racing ostrich, rather than a horse, is the unusual subject here, shown at the race track in Mineola, on Long Island in New York. Novelty races like this were occasionally staged as sideshows alongside ordinary horse racing in the early twentieth century, when crowds at tracks expected entertainment beyond the main card. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, which sold news photographs to newspapers of the period. The title and place come from the Bain caption cards, which the Library of Congress notes were not independently verified.
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 946 × 714 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3558 |
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