The Greatest Horse Sale of the Century - 1000 High-Class Harness and Saddle Horses by Auction – Vintage 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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The Greatest Horse Sale of the Century - 1000 High-Class Harness and Saddle Horses by Auction
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Advertising a sale of 1,000 horses in a single auction, this color poster from 1894 promises a crowd of "high-class" harness and saddle animals, a bold claim for a printed bill. It was produced in Buffalo, New York, by the Courier Company's Show Printing House, a shop that turned out many circus and sale posters of the period. Harness horses, the trotters and pacers that pulled light carriages, and saddle horses were prized stock in the 1890s, when horse ownership still signaled wealth and standing. The record credits the artwork to Lynwood Palmer, though that attribution is unverified.
| Created / published | Buffalo : The Courier Company, Show Printing House, 1894. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 56 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | Picture image signed by Lynwood Palmer. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Palmer, Lynwood. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129018 |
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