Hyde Park Post Office Mural: The Union Corners Race Track, 1850

Panel 17 of the Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office": The Union Corners Race Track-- James Roosevelt in his breaking cart talks to a friend-- Daniel Wigg in blue coat trots by watched from the other side of the fence by Martin Van Buren and James K. Paulding (his former Secretary of the Navy and popular novelist)-- while the owner of the track John Albert Stoutenburgh rings the bell in the judges' stand. The peanut wagon in the foreground contains yellow cans and a bottle of Daniel Wigg's "Whirlbone Linament" equally good for man and beast. In the b... Mehr ...