The Great Fight, between Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan, for $10,000.
date: label: date made
content: 1849
name: label: depicted
content: Hyer, Tom
label: depicted
content: Sullivan, Yankee
label: maker
content: Baillie, James S.
label: maker
content: Ingall's Studio
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Colored print of two men (New York native Tom "Young America" Hyer and the Irish immigrant James "Yankee" Sullivan) fighting bare-fisted in a boxing ring. Warmly dressed spectators gather around the ring on a snow-covered river bank. The fighters and some spectators are identified in a key below the image on both sides of the title. The fight took place on Februrary 7, 1849 on Still Pond Heights, Kent County, Maryland. Tom Hyer was the victor after 16 rounds but supposedly only lasted 18 minutes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Sports and Recreation, general
label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Winter
label: depicted
content: Boxing
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: New York Illustrated Times
label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
label: Related Publication
content: Garvan, Anthony N. B. and Peter C. Welsh. Victorian American
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.60.2812
label: catalog number
content: 60.2812
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 17 in x 20 1/4 in; 43.18 cm x 51.435 cm