Magazine Cover: Horses, Mare with Two Foals Full Color Photo, The Courier Journal, Original, 1961

Three horses, a mare and her two foals, share an October morning in Kentucky on this full-color Courier-Journal magazine cover.

• Maker: The Courier-Journal Magazine
• Materials: Paper
• Dimensions: 12.5" × 11"
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage 1961
• Condition: Good. Age toning and yellowing; top border edges are fragile and torn; full picture area intact (photographed). Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

The October 8, 1961 cover of The Courier-Journal magazine, a full-color photograph of quiet pastoral life featuring a mare with her two young foals. This is an original magazine page, not a reproduction.

Beautiful framed for a farmhouse, a child's room, or an equestrian space. A gentle, grounding gift for horse lovers and collectors of Kentucky ephemera.

The Courier-Journal was born in 1868, when Louisville's Journal and Morning Courier, rival papers that had stood on opposite sides of the Civil War, merged under editor Henry Watterson, and it grew into one of the best-known regional newspapers in the country. By 1961 it was in the hands of the Bingham family, who also owned The Louisville Times, WHAS radio and television, and Standard Gravure, a rotogravure printing company that produced Sunday magazine sections for the paper and for other newspapers. Louisville is also horse country, home to the Kentucky Derby, so a mare and foals on the cover of the Sunday magazine suited its readers well.

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