Black Tin Stallion - Grand Island, Nebraska
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Black Tin Stallion - Grand Island, Nebraska
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
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Grand Island’s iconic Black Tin Stallion stands beside the recreated Veterinarian Hospital of Dr. Pete Phillipson at Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer’s 1890s Railroad Town.
This large black stallion has been a familiar icon around Grand Island, Nebraska, since the early 1900s. Designed as an advertising symbol, the wood and tin horse was on the roof of the North, Robinson, and Dean Sales Barn back when Grand Island was the 2nd largest horse and mule market in the world. The company later became Third City Livestock, but the black tin stallion remained to watch over the Livestock Yards. When the company closed in 2004, the owners donated the Black Stallion to the Stuhr Museum. He has been in Railroad Town since 2007.
Dr. Phillipson practiced veterinary medicine in the early 20th Century in Holbrook, Nebraska, about 115 miles away from Grand Island. Much of his equipment is inside the infirmary.
Copyright 2021 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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August 19th, 2021
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