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Falls (Accidents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

A "Last Ditcher", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2171
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the Sunday Pictorial newspaper of the horse, "White Cockade" falling and unseatting his jockey at an open ditch during the Past and Present Steeplechase, Grand Military Meeting at Sandown Park in 1920.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

At Becher's Brook Saxby Falls From Horse, "Svetoi", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3065
Scope and Contents

Photographs from the Sunday Pictorial showing jockey, Brook Saxby's bad fall from his horse, "Svetoi", at Becher's [Brook] fence at the Grand National in the early 20th century with the second image showing several policemen picking up the unconscious man from the racetrack.

Dates: 1870s-1930s