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Sunday sports
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Image of three hunters in the foreground coming down a path in the forest after hunting foxes. All three individuals are experiencing comedic mishaps; one man towards the back end of the trail is shown leaning on a rock while holding up his wounded knee. Another man is shown tripping over a log and falling to the floor while chasing his dog that came off its leash The third man depicted in the center of the image is shown lifting his knee and crying out while grabbing onto the head of the fox tied to a pole behind his back after being bitten on his butt end. Towards the background of the print are groups of eight hunters standing around conversing while holding rifles and drinks. The individuals are all surrounded by large trees and forestry.
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Scribner's for January
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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine January 1898 issue featuring a minuteman of the Revolutionary War militia standing leaning the butt of his rifle on the ground.
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Sportsmens Depot established in 1826 : John Krider, gun maker
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Image of a decorative advertisement for gun maker John Krider's Sportmens Depot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The decorative title is located in the center of the print, and below it is an image of two men with hunting gear and hunting dogs, shown sitting with dead game. To the right of the men and dogs, is another man shown seated and fishing by a body of water. The central image is enclosed by six small vignettes around the borders, and a horizontal vignette towards the top of the title. Images include scenes of dogs hunting game, men fishing, men shooting at game and deer, and geese flying.
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Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt
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Image of a female equestrian standing on one leg on the back of a galloping horse as a whiteface clown looks on in amazement.
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Richard E. Barnes letters to George Barnes
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Six letters written by Richard E. Barnes from Diamond Springs, California (about 5 miles south of Placerville), to his brother George Barnes. The letters give an interesting flavor of life in a gold rush community in the late 1850s. Barnes talks about wages, prices, problems with mail and communications, hunting adventures including a friend getting shot accidentally, a friend's bear fight with a grizzly, the vigilance committee, and his longing for people to write him and to go back home. Barnes goes into some detail about the mines and mining in the area and money being earned and lost.
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Lester & Allen's big minstrels : "Two new sports in town."
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Image of two African American men and two bull dogs walking down a street while African American spectators including women, children, and a police officer look on from the sidewalk and building windows, the men are wearing costumes decorated with playing cards and horseshoes and have top hats, gloves, canes, large diamond tie pins, and rose boutonnieres, and one man holds a $50 dollar bill in his hand; with a date sheet for a November 26, [1885], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted on poster.
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