Color print of the interior of a barn with men, women and a child engaged in husking corn. The central figure is a man standing with a basket filled with husked corn on his shoulder. At the left, a young girl watches a man braid together a pile of husked corn. A rifle leans up against the barn door. This is a copy of an 1860 oil on canvas genre painting titled Corn Husking of 1860 by Eastman Johnson. The original painting had the inscription "Lincoln/Hamlon [sic} on the barn door but this print only appears to have some indecipherable scratching. Other Currier and Ives copies have the inscription "The Union Forever."
Black and white print of a horse (Charlie May) standing in a pasture.
Description
A black and white print of a horse in side view. It is a dark horse with a white nose, stockings and a tail standing in a pasture.
Weingartner was a member of the firm Nagel and Weingaertner which operated in New York City from 1849-1856. The firm included Adam Weingartner and Louis Nagel. The pair exhibited their work at the American Institute in 1850.
A color print of a bay stallion standing in a grassy meadow. He has a sleek, powerful build, white stockings on his hind legs, and a tapered tail. In the background is a simple farmhouse with a shed roof and annex surrounded by trees and a picket fence. The terrain has a gently rolling contour.
Garrett Davis was foaled in 1850 from Glencoe and a dam by Jim Leseuer.
Color print of a street scene with a building bearing signs reading "Clothing Warehouse" and "Charles J. Lovejoy" in the center foreground. The street in front of it is cobblestone. Men, women and children are on the sidewalk and horses and wagons as well as pedestrians are in the street. Other store buildings are on the streets around the warehouse.
Black and white print depicting four views of a man fighting with a grizzly bear: "Surprize & first shot"; "Getting to close Quarters"; "The Death Struggle" and "The rescue".
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.
