Great Eastern, As He Appeared in The Trio Races with Smuggler at Mystic Park, Boston, Oct. 16, 1876.
date: label: Date made
content: 1877
name: label: maker
content: Haskell & Allen
label: maker
content: Howe, E.R.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of a dark brown trotting horse pulling a sulky and driver.
label: Description
content: A color print of a dark brown stallion with white nose and stockings on his back feet, and a black mane, tail, and legs. He is pulling a jockey on sulky. His equipment is light weight and designed to promote speed. The jockey wears a white shirt, long pants, and a billed cap. The track is bordered by grassy fields and woods. Low hills are in the distance.
label: Description
content: Great Eastern was a descendant of Hambletonian bred in New York. He was one of Smuggler’s principle rivals. They faced off at Mystic Park on October 16, 1876 to a crowd of 3000 people, where Great Eastern was beaten. In the rematch scheduled for October 20, Great Eastern, driven by A.J. Feek beat Smuggler with a time of 2:21. He went on to win thirteen more times between 1875 and 1883, traveling as far as Illinois.
label: Description
content: Haskell and Allen’s most memorable productions were their horse prints. A Boston based publisher of lithographs, the firm seems to have issued more large folio images than small. Haskell began as a print seller with Haskell and Ripley (1868) but in 1869 he began a partnership with George Allen. In 1873 they moved to 61 Hanover St in Boston where they prospered for a few years. They went bankrupt in 1878.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: depicted
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1870-1879
label: related event
content: Trio Races at Mystic Park
label: related event
content: Trio Races at Mystic Park, Rematch
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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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.60.3537
label: catalog number
content: 60.3537
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 17 5/8 in x 25 1/8 in; 44.7675 cm x 63.8175 cm