Black and white print, half length portrait of a man (Andrew Wallace) seated and holding a cane in his left hand. He is wearing two medals on his lapel.
Colored memorial print of a weeping woman standing beside a monument topped with a large urn. Behind the monument is a weeping willow tree. A river flows in the background.
Black and white print, half length portrait of a man (David Crockett). Below the title is an inscription which includes either a facsimilie of the sitter's signature or his autograph.
Black and white print of three horses standing in a hilly meadow. Inscriptions in ink beneath the image identfiy the horses, but they are difficult to read.
Description
A black and white print of three horses standing in a grassy, hilly meadow. Three clumps of trees are nearby. The inscriptions identify the horses – Josia Wilks sired by Favorite Winner 19 blue and 2 red Ribbons Sit….one show rings; Tennessee Dictator, Sire Dictator Dam George Wilks; Lady Washington 2/9/4 sold for 3600.00 Sire Woodford Membrino Dam Enfidel by Geroge Wilks; Winner Fisherman Stakes, Hermitage ? Stakes and Clarksville Stake. (Note: Difficult to decipher)
A lithographer and painter in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, A.C. Webb made many prints from landscapes, cityscapes, to equestrian prints.
Color print of a street scene depicting a dirt road in the foreground descending steeply to a street with a church at its foot. Buildings line the road. A horse and cart with a man beside it are stopped at the top of the road on the left. On the right, two men are sawing a log on a trestle in front of a building with a sign that reads "Chair/Manuf...".
Color print of a trotting horse (Cresceus) standing in a field.
Description
A color print of a standing sorrel trotting horse in an open field.
Cresceus was foaled in 1894 by G.H. Ketchum in Toledo, Ohio from Robert McGregor and Mabel. In 1901 he trotted the mile in 2:01 ¼ in Cloumbus, Ohio and went on to break his own record in 1903 with a time of 1:59 ¾. He won 42 of his 61 races. He won over $102,851 in purse money, earning more per year than any other stallion ever. Cresceus was sold to M.W. Savage of Minneapolis in November 1905 for $21,000.
Color print of a hay field at the foot of a large rocky hill. Men are raking hay into bundles. A horse-drawn hay wagon is on a road in the center of the field.
Black and white print depicting a grove of evergreen trees with wood frame buildings among them. Men on horseback, a horse-drawn carriage and a team of oxen pulling a wagon are in the foreground.
Color print depicting a ferry pier at which a steamboat labeled "West Point" is docked. A two and a half-story wood house is on the right. In the background across the river are various buildings of the military academy West Point.
Black and white print city on a river. The river separates a rural area in the foreground with a ferry waiting at the end of a road from the city on its opposite bank. There are numerous pencil comments and additions on the image.
Color print of a rural scene with a steam running through wooded hills. Houses and a church are located along the banks of the stream. A boy and girl are on a path in the foreground.
Black & white print; half length portrait of a woman (actress Miss E. Kimberly) seated with her right arm leaning on a table. Underneath the image is a facsimile of the sitter's autograph.
Color advertising print depicting four men and a boy in fashionable dress. In the background is the bridge over the Schuylkill River going to Fairmont Park, Philadelphia.
Color print depicting a young man in lower left asleep with his head propped against a lamppost. City buildings are in the background. Numerous advertising posters are pasted on a wall beside him. They are arranged so that they are humorous when read from top to bottom.
