The Greatest Horse Sale of the Century - 1000 High-Class Harness and Saddle Horses by Auction – Historic 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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures The Greatest Horse Sale of the Century - 1000 High-Class Harness and Saddle Horses by Auction in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Greatest Horse Sale of the Century - 1000 High-Class Harness and Saddle Horses by Auction
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The poster's own headline sets it apart: a sale of 1,000 horses, all described as high-class harness and saddle stock, offered at auction in Buffalo, New York, in 1894. Its color lithography reflects how such sales were advertised in that period, when a large, eye-catching sheet could draw buyers from far away. Harness horses, which pulled carriages and trotting sulkies, and saddle horses were prized in American cities before the automobile took over, so a sale of this size signaled a major trade. The record credits the picture to Lynwood Palmer, a sporting artist, though that attribution rests on an unverified caption card.
| 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 × 1,124 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172520 |
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