Greyhound postcard

[pandy]

I’ve always had a fascination with Greyhound, the Grey Ghost.

This amazing trotter with his graceful and long stride was possibly the fastest of all time. He set a world record of 1:55.1 that stood for 31 years! A customer of mine recently sent me a postcard from 1938 which was mailed by a gentleman to a woman and on the postcard he wrote, "Hello, saw Greyhound race at Goshen today. He is the most thrilling horse. Trotted a mile in 1:59.1."



For more info and a video on Greyhound, go to http://www.harnessracing.ws/Greyhound.htm

[wilderness]

pandy,
I've a scanned image of the image from a Greyhound postcard from Goshen that was never mailed.
It's nice quality.

There are 60 images between two photographers in the Time-Life archives of photo's of Greyhound that were never published.
The Time-Life archives (http://images.google.com/hosted/life) are one of the most difficult website I've ever navigated. Searching the website is hopeless and by intention.

The Greyhound photo's are under photographers, Peter Stackpole and Hansel Mieth

[wilderness]

For those interested in old harness racing photo's.

There's nearly 250 photo's (most of which are not named) available via the Kentuckiana Digital Archives (http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple&c=eadimages&q1=harness+racing&rgn1=entire+record)

[wilderness]

pandy,
The Greyhound photo's are under photographers, Peter Stackpole and Hansel Mieth

BTW, if somebody is able to determine how to arrive on a landing page for these two photographers in the Time-Life archives?

Your far more competent and patient than I at locating items on the internet.

[pandy]

Thanks Don, I'll try to find those.