Jay Eye See
date: label: Date made
content: 1884
name: label: publisher
content: Vacuum Oil Co.
label: maker
content: Clay & Richmond
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and white print with tinting of a trotting horse pulling a sulky. This is an advertisement for Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: A black and white print with tinting of a trotting black horse with a sulky and driver who sits erect, holding the reins intently. The horse harness is light and well-constructed. The driver wears a white shirt, short cutaway jacket, narrow pants, and a cap with a beak. The area behind the track is wooded. This is an advertisement for Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Jay Eye See was born in 1878 by Dictator and Midnight and bred by Colonel Richard West of Lexington, Kentucky. Jerome Increase Case, whose initials the horse is named after, purchased the horse for $500 but was disappointed because the horse wouldn’t remain at the trot, as Jay Eye See was double gated. Edwin Blither was ultimately able to train the horse to trot winning times, and Jay Eye See became the world’s first 2:10 trotter in Providence, RI on August 1, 1884. He had shaved ¼ seconds off the time set by Maud S. three years earlier, but his record was quickly replaced when, a day later, Maud S. reduced the record to 2:09 ¾. Jay Eye See did set a new record in 1894 when he raced the mile in 2:06 ¼. He died in 1909 at the age of 31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
label: depicted
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1880-1889
label: Subject
content: Wagons
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Advertising
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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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.60.3591
label: catalog number
content: 60.3591
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photo-oleograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithographic Processes
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 15 1/4 in x 20 1/8 in; 38.735 cm x 51.1175 cm