Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Fashion and Young Boston, this great race has been postponed to Tuesday the 2nd June.
Call Number
D Middle 84/GC179/Box 01/Oversize GA 2012.02758
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcth83mc80x
Publisher
[New York? : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1842]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1842
Extent
1 item ; sheet 30.5 x 23 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [printer]
Medium: Woodcuts, Letterpress printing
Item description: Broadside with woodcut illustration.
Inscribed in plate: "This great race has been postponed to Tuesday the 2nd, June, on account of the unwillingess of the owners to allow so important a contest to be decided over a heavy track, and in bad weather. Trains on the Long Island Railroad will run from Brooklyn to the course, in quick succession, from 7 o'clock in the morning up to 20 minutes to 2, P.M."
Unsigned.
Depiction: Horse racing scene.

Discovery Information

Subject
Horse racing—New York (State)—History—19th century—In art
Broadsides—United States—19th century—Specimens
Broadsides—New York (State)—1842
Race horses—United States—In art
Long Island Railroad Company—History
Printed ephemera—United States—19th century—Specimens
Ephemera—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/580ac8a4-f2da-4e9a-9af8-e20f45a20eb5/manifest