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Woven horse blanket - Russia – Historic Print

Woven horse blanket - Russia, [between ca. 1888 and 1900] — historic photograph
Woven horse blanket - Russia, [between ca. 1888 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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The subject is a woven horse blanket from Russia, pictured in a photographic print dated between about 1888 and 1900. Flat-woven textiles like this were often made as practical equipment, with bold geometric or pictorial patterns that set off the animal. The catalog card lists the picture under tapestry and rugs and credits the James Guthrie Harbord Collection, though its date and details are unverified. Late nineteenth-century collectors often photographed textiles like this to document regional craft, so the image is useful for studying how such blankets looked at the time.

Created / published[between ca. 1888 and 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 2551. James Guthrie Harbord Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Russia--Tapestry; Rugs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,247 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144229

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