Mounted Sword Contest in San Francisco

Title: Mounted Sword Contest in San Francisco
Subject: Fencing on Horseback; Public Assaults—USA
Description: Front page of May 22, 1886 Harper's Weekly with illustration drawn by "T de Thulstrup" of a mounted sword contest in San Francisco. The illustration depicts two fencers with sabres on horseback with the Telegraph Hill Observatory (also called Layman’s Castle) in the background. An original photograph which may have been the inspiration for this illustration exists in the park archives of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.
Contributor: Thure de Thulstrup (Artist)
Source: Harper's Weekly
Date: May 22, 1886
volume: 30
number: 1535
Temporal Coverage: See all items with this value 1880s
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: Benjamin Bowles Collection
Extent: 11.25 in (w) x 15.75 in (h)
Language: English
Type: Magazine article
Identifier: 2018.01.007
Spatial Coverage: United States of America; California; San Francisco; Telegraph Hill Observatory (San Francisco, USA)
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Benjamin Bowles; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles