A man wearing top hat, sitting on a dead horse in the street. Picture was taken at South Eighth Street and Indiana Avenue in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheboygan,_Wisconsin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sheboygan, Wisconsin">Sheboygan, Wisconsin</a> between 1876 and 1884 - based on the presence of a bridge over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheboygan_River" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sheboygan River">Sheboygan River</a> in the background and the absence of the railroad tracks that were installed in 1884. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/05/dead.horse.ap/index.html">[1]</a>.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_M._Fitzpatrick" class="extiw" title="w:Colleen M. Fitzpatrick">Colleen Fitzpatrick</a> determined a number of possible dates for the photograph in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/games_magazine_april_2010.pdf"><i>The Dead Horse Investigation</i></a>, Rice University Press, 2008 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0976716054" title="Special:BookSources/0976716054">ISBN 0976716054</a>.  In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://identifinders.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/the-dead-horse-investigation-update/">a later blog</a> she further narrowed the most likely dates down to either August 10, 1873 or August 10, 1879.
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