A poster from the International Fair in San Antonio of 1889 — the second one — came to me in pieces, and I put it back together. On it is an advertisement for a purse of $50,000 for a horse race.

Strickland’s Fair operated from the 1880s until 1935 and for the entire time used horses to pull its caravans and trailers although in 1907 there was one significant concession to mechanisation.