Collectanea for the historian of the American thoroughbred horse from the files of Skiner's American farmer, etc. , 1929]
- Title(s):
- Collectanea for the historian of the American thoroughbred horse from the files of Skiner's American farmer, etc. / Photostats assembled 1929 by Fairfax Harrison.
- Additional Title(s):
- Collectanea on the American horse
- Published/Created:
- Belvoir, Fauquier County, Virginia : [Fairfax Harrison, 1929]
- Physical Description:
- [130] p. ; 24 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsSporting 997Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9773063
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Date of publication and publisher from statement of responsibility.
Collection of photostats from newspapers and serials.
Spine title: Collectanea on the American horse.
Bound in textured red cloth with printed paper spine label.
BAC: British Art Center copy: Red cloth; white paper label with black lettering on spine. Collection of photostats. Letter from Fairfax Harrison to Harry Worcester Smith. Spine height: 9 3/8 inches. - Subject Terms:
- Horse racing -- History -- Virginia.Horses -- Breeding -- Maryland.Horses -- Breeding -- Virginia.Horses -- Pedigrees.Thoroughbred horse.
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- I. Racing in Colonial Virginia / W.G. Stanard
- II. Early Virginia pedigrees (from "Advocate's" collection)
- III. Edgar's story of the Godolphin
- IV. Early Maryland pedigrees (from the collection of Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman)
- V. The state of the blood horse in Virginia 1823 (the debate between W.H. Fitzhugh and John Randolph)
- VI. The earliest private stud books (John Taylor III and John Randolph of Roanoke)
- VII. Unrealized proposals for an American stud book, 1815-1837
- VIII. The first American stud book (Cottom 1828 & 1830).
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