Ethan Allen
date: label: Date made
content: 1868
name: label: maker
content: Crosby, Charles H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of a trotting horse (Ethan Allen) pulling a four-wheeled carriage on an open road.
label: Description
content: A color print of a brown horse with a black mane and tail and stockings on 3 legs. He is pulling a box jump-seat buggy with a single seat. The driver is bundled up in a brown overcoat, a cap, gloves, and a blanket over his knees. Harness is light. A dirt road runs through rolling countryside.
label: Description
content: Ethan Allen was foaled on June 18, 1849 by Joel W.Holcomb of Ticonderoga, NY. He was sired by Vermont Black Hawk, a distant descendant of the thoroughbred Messenger, and birthed by Poll. On the Holcomb farm, he was treated as a family pet, admiration that continued through his public career. Orville S. Roe of Shoreham, Vermont, bought half an interest in the colt, so during his earlier years, he was owned jointly by Holcomb and Roe. That was the beginning of his many owners. In 1862 he was sold to Frank Baker, who, after a time, sold him to Dan Mace and I. D. Walton. In 1866 he was purchased by J. E. Maynard of Boston, who sold him to Eph. Simmons, but afterwards bought him back, and again sold him, November 5th, 1868, to Wesley P. Balch of Boston, who in turn sold him to Col. H. S. Russell of Milton, Massachusetts. Ethan Allen was known for being the most handsome trotter in the races and had one of the longest racing careers, spanning 18 seasons. In 1853 he set the 4-year-old record of 2:36. In 1858 he reduced the stallion record to 2:28 for the mile. The great achievement of his life occurred on June 21, 1867, when, at age eighteen, and hitched with a running mate, he defeated Dexter, at the Fashion Course in Long Island in 2:15, 2:16 and 2:19. He won a total of 33 races, 22 in a single harness. His titles included Champion Trotting Stallion of the World, Champion of the World at Four Years of Age, and Champion of the World to Pole, with a best time of 2:25 ½. Ethan Allen was highly popular at stud, with his fees reaching $500. He produced six under 2:30 trotters. Ethan Allen died at Sprague and Akers Farm, owned by Colonel Amasa in Lawrence Kansas on September 10, 1876 at age 27 and was buried at the entrance of the trotting course in Kansas, with a monument to commemorate his career. Later, his skeleton was exhumed and displayed at the Museum of Natural History in Lawrence. He was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1999 as an “Immortal.” The popular trotting horse weather vane was based upon his silhouette.
label: Description
content: Charles H. Crosby was an engraver, lithographer and printer. As early as 1847 he is noted as a Boston engraver. He lived 1819-1896. In 1852 he joined the engraving and lithography firm of Moore and Crosby, which dissolved in 1856. He continued on in Boston as an engraver until after 1860. He retired to Roxbury where he died in 1896.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Horses
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3565
label: catalog number
content: 60.3565
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 16 in x 21 1/8 in; 40.64 cm x 53.6575 cm