c1911, 21 1/2" x 19" Negro Church League Photo - At CA Antiquarian Book Fair

[MooseDog]

I was there too, I work for a Friends of the Library organization and we got a free both in the Special Exhibits hall - quite an experience. High-brow is an apt description, I went by that 12th century manuscript booth (double wide and the three things I looked at in the glass case were all over $100K) and the guy looked at me funny.

I think it was the fact that I was underdressed, long-sleeve tee-shirt and jeans, but hey at least it was a clean shirt. But I had no business even looking at that stuff.

[patricka]

Pretty sure that church league photo is from Chicago. I have seen that photographer's name before related to a Chicago studio and the Clark street address makes sense.

[steve B]

On the pic of the trophies...........

Are those two different years? Or were there Two Jacob Bergers? The one on the left says " Jacob Berger winner of first place" while the one on the right says "Jacob Berger winner of second place"

Or ..........Some how he was both first AND second

And if so, how many competitors didn't bother if he was going the next year?

Steve B

[steve B]

Fantastic stuff by the way. I've been to the Boston show and the main show mostly had wonderful stuff I could never afford. The lower brow Ephemera part of the show was more to my liking. Even if it was actually partly held in the parking garage

Steve B

[CarltonHendricks]

Steve, Good observation...yes I too took note of J. Berger winning both first and second place...I figured once I get my $35.00 copy I'll read the whole story that surrounds the trophies and learn the reason...though I surmised he, Berger, probably entered more than one team...by a quick cursory look into the question I was able to establish that the winner of the 1910 race entered three different teams...and won first and thrid place...So apparently it wasn't unusual for someone to enter more than one team.

http://www.nomekennelclub.com/nkchistory.htm
Excerpted from "Nome Kennel Club History" - Howard Farley's History of the Nome Kennel Club written in 1985.?
....The record which still stands today, eighty years later, was set in 1910 by teams brought over from the Siberian side. They were Siberian huskies, dogs brought over by Fox Maule Ramsey. He entered three teams in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes and he took the number one position with a man driving for him who was called Iron Man Johnson. That record of 74 hours and some odd minutes stands to this date. Fox Maule also took third place at that race with a team of those Siberians that he was driving himself....