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Thoroughbred : a celebration of the breed
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American thoroughbred sire lines
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A color lithograph describing genealogy lines of American thoroughbred horses. Chart is divided into sections that include, from top left to right: Swynford line; St. Simon line; Domino line; Teddy line; Hampton line; and Phalaris line. Text on print includes an index and key. Copyrighted by publisher below title. Print is bordered with a location grid.
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Sunday in the California Diggings
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Image is of miners engaged in various activities: fighting, horse racing, drinking, reading, writing, and washing clothes. "Published at the Wide West Office. Anthony & Baker."--text, below image. "C. Nahl."--text, within image, lower left. "Noisy Carriers, San Francisco."--stamped text, below image to the right. Paper color: buff.
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Sports - Horse Racing
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Approx. 12 items: LAT articles, material prepared by Arcadia Chamber of Commerce (late 1930s), brief notes with information on turf activities, etc. Notable items: two 1938 brochures produced by California Anti-racing Assn., "Who beats the pari-mutuel machine?" and "Turf gambling" ; an Arcadia Chamber of Commerce 1-pp. report, dated 5/10/1939, and addressed to "the Chambers of Commerce of Southern California" containing positive material on horse racing, summarized with the quote - "A canvass of Arcadia business men has been made (revealing) that 95% believe Santa Anita is a benefit to Arcadia and the surrounding community..." ; 2-pp. chronology headed "The Times and Horse-racing," dated 10/25/1976, featuring headlines and quotes from LAT editorials expressing opposition to horse racing, 1932 - 1935 ; related material.
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Banker
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When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder.
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Photograph album of Mary Dimond Tobin family and friends
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Extensive amateur photograph album depicting members of elite society of San Francisco and San Mateo, California, engaged in recreational and social pursuits with friends and family in the early 1900s. The album was likely compiled by Mary Dimond Tobin and contains many images of her, her husband, Joseph Sadoc Tobin, and their family and friends attending social events and participating in outdoor activities including many images of automobile travel, as well as horseback riding, horse racing, swimming, and fishing. Images include members of the families of Charles W. Clark, Horace Pillsbury, Rudolph Spreckels, Dixwell Hewitt, Peter Martin, Dimond, Hobart, Carolan, Parrott, Cadwalader, Van Ness, Magee, Vanderbilt, and others. The album opens with President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to the Burlingame Club in 1903. Photographs depict events at the private polo and horse racing track of Charles W. Clark at El Palomar near San Mateo; the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915; automobile excursions around Northern California and to Yosemite, Pescadero, Pitt River, and La Honda, as well as various images of trips outside of California. Most of the photographs are identified with brief handwritten descriptions and dates.
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Dan Patch 1:56 1/4 : champion harness horse of the world
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Image of a mahogany brown trotting horse named Dan Patch shown in harness and sulky being driven by trainer Myron McHenry. The driver is shown sitting up straight in his seat and holding onto the reins of the horse with one hand, and a whip in the other. The horse, Dan Patch, is shown firmly standing with his feet on the ground and is looking at the viewer with a side-eye. The background includes an image of the International Stock Food Farm, part of the International Stock Food Co. owned by Marion Savage. Savage purchased Dan Patch and used the horse's racing record as way to promote his livestock feed business. Left of print includes text describing Dan Patch's racing experiences from when he was four years of age to seven years of age.
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