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Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron. – Antique Print

Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron., New York : Currier & Ives, c1878. — antique lithograph
Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron., New York : Currier & Ives, c1878.. Antique lithograph from the Hartford 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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A window into the past: Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron.

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Two pacers, Sleepy George and Lucy, are the subjects here, racing for a $1,000 purse at Hartford, Connecticut, on August 22, 1878, which sets this sheet apart from the firm's many other racing scenes. Currier & Ives built a large business on sporting subjects like this one, and their trotting and pacing prints reached a broad audience of people who followed harness racing in newspapers and at local tracks. The drawing is credited to J. Cameron. Pacing, in which a horse moves both legs on one side together, was a gait that breeders and drivers of the period prized, and the print offers a window into how these contests were presented to the public.

Created / publishedNew York : Currier & Ives, c1878.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6397
SubjectsHarness racing--Connecticut--Hartford--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,044 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175153

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