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Visual Materials
Trip to Kentucky and visit at the nursery stud, Lexington
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- Description
- Photograph album documenting a visit by five friends to Lexington, Kentucky, to tour thoroughbred horse farms, to Louisville to watch the Kentucky Derby, and other points of interest in the Blue Grass region, from May 2nd to May 9th, 1896, as guests of race horse breeder August Belmont, Jr., the members of the party were William A. Burnham, A. Lithgow Devens, A. Clifford Tower, Amos T. French, and E. C. Potter. With many photographs of horses, as well as images including group portraits of the group, the Kentucky Association Track in Lexington, traveling to the Mammoth Cave, and a raccoon. The album includes handwritten captions for some images and a handwritten daily summary of the trip on the last page as well as a menu for the Navarro Cafe, Lexington, Kentucky, May 5, 1896, for August Belmont.
- Production date
- 1896.
- Call number
- photCL 535
