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Racing drays
Racing drays
TitleRacing drays
DescriptionPhotograph of a printed engraving of two African-American males racing their drays. One of six sketches made in Houston by an artist accompanying journalist Edward King of "Scribner's Monthly" in 1873, when the city was recovering from Reconstruction.
Dateca. 1873
Genreblack-and-white photographs
engravings
copy prints
Subject.Topical (AAT)african american
racing
drays
horse-drawn vehicles
Subject (Geographic)Houston, Texas
Original CollectionGeorge Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection, 1836-2001 http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=356
RepositorySpecial Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Original Item LocationID 1970-001, Box 13, Folder 296
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File namefur417-cc.tif
Digital Collectionreformatted digital