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[Head of Man o' War (horse)] – Antique Print

[Head of Man o' War (horse)], c1933. — historic photograph
[Head of Man o' War (horse)], c1933.. 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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[Head of Man o' War (horse)] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Here the camera stays on the head of Man o' War, the chestnut colt who became one of the most celebrated thoroughbreds in American history. Racing for owner Samuel Riddle in 1919 and 1920, he won 20 of his 21 starts, and his only defeat came in the 1919 Sanford Stakes. By the early 1930s he had long been retired to stud at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, where admirers traveled to see him in person. The caption details for this portrait are not fully confirmed, so its exact circumstances remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1933.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by L.S. Sutcliffe. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Horses...; Horse racing; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,061 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140594

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