Poster: Great Five Mile Rowing Match for $4000 & The Championship of America
- Title
- Poster: Great Five Mile Rowing Match for $4000 & The Championship of America
- Date
- 1867, September 9
- Creator
- Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St., New York
- Identifier
- PAB_0136
- Description
- This poster depicts a professional 5 mile singles race between Walter Brown and James Hammill on September 9, 1867 at Newburg Bay on the Hudson River in New York. "Won by Hammill on a claim of foul allowed by the referree, Stephen Roberts, Esq.
- Type
- Posters (visual works)
- Rights
- Public domain
- Place
- New York, Hudson River
- Extent
- 24 x 14 in.
- Subject
- Regattas
- Hammill
- James; Brown
- Walter
- Temporal Coverage
- 1867
- Item sets
- Programs and Ephemera