Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Film Resources

Compiled by Jude Schanzer, Director of Public Relations and Programming, East Meadow (N.Y.) Public Library

Seabiscuit (2003)
Producers: Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Spyglass Entertainment,Larger Than Life Productions, Kennedy/Marshall Company
Director: Gary Ross
Writers: Laura Hillenbrand (book), Gary Ross (screenplay)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Elizabeth Banks
Awards: Nominated for seven Oscars and one Golden Globe.  Another four wins and 31 nominations from different associations.
Rated: PG-13 
Running Time: 2 hr. 20 min.

Book Discussion Resources

Compiled by Marion Wrenn, PhD

T. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance (New York: Basic Books: 1995).

Roland Marchand. Advertising the American Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).

Mark Kramer and Wendy Call, eds., Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (New York: Plume, 2007).

Art Resources

Compiled by Barbara Applegate, Dir. Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post campus

Title: The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
Creator: Albert Pinkham Ryder, American, 1847–1917
Work Type: Paintings
Date: c. 1896–1908
Material: oil on canvas
Measurements: Unframed: 70.5cm x 90cm
Repository: The Cleveland Museum of Art,  Cleveland, Ohio, USA; purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund  1928.8
Collection: The Image Gallery  Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: CMA_.1928.8
Source: date from The Cleveland Museum of Art

Title: Parole
Creator: Edwin Forbes, 1839–1895, after Currier & Ives
Work Type: Prints.  Color lithographs.
Date: 1877.
Material: color lithograph on paper
Measurements: 18.4 x 35.6 cm.
Collection: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Collection Formerly in The AMICO Library
Source: date from Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Title: Gallop; saddle; thoroughbred bay horse, Bouquet
Creator: Eadweard J. Muybridge, English, 1830–1904
Date: ca. 1884–1887
Material: collotype print
Measurements: Image:18.2 x 41.6 cm .Overall: 48.1 x 61.2 cm
Description: Inscription: recto (printed): ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE 633.Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.. verso (stamped in purple ink): EASTMAN HISTORICAL.PHOTOGRAPHIC CO
Repository: George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1978:0802:0633
Collection: George Eastman House

Title: Mule; A, B, a refractory animal, Denver
Creator: Eadweard J. Muybridge, English, 1830–1904
Date: ca. 1884–1887
Material: collotype print
Measurements: Image: 17.9 x 40.5 cm . Overall: 48.4 x 61.3 cm
Description: Inscription: recto (printed): ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE 662.Copyright 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.. verso (stamped in purple ink): EASTMAN HISTORICAL.PHOTOGRAPHIC C
Repository: George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1978:0802:0662
Collection: George Eastman House

Title: Trotting; sulky; breaking to gallop; sorrel mare, Flode Holden
Creator: Eadweard J. Muybridge, English, 1830–1904
Date: ca. 1884 - 1887
Material: collotype print
Measurements: Image: 19.9 x 37.2 cm . Overall: 48.3 x 61.3 cm
Description: Inscription: recto (printed): ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. PLATE.  614.Copyright, 1887, by EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.. [no inscription verso]
Repository: George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1978:0802:0614
Collection: George Eastman House

Title: Abraham Lincoln (the “Cooper Union portrait”)
Creator: Mathew B. Brady, American, 1823 (ca.)–1896
Date: 1860
Material: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Related Item Adams AAT: 22.14
Collection: Art History Survey Collection
Source: Catalogued by: Digital Library Federation Academic Image Cooperative

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Creator:Mathew B. Brady, American, 1823 (ca.)–1896
Work Type: photograph
Date: Feb. 1864
Location United States
Material: collodion negative
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865, United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Portraits, Photography -- 20th C. A.D  Portraits -- Presidents -- United States
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego

Title: Abraham Lincoln
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: 1863, printed 1901
Location Depicted: United States of America
Material: Gelatin silver print
Measurements: Image: 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1976, 1976.627.1 
Collection: The Image Gallery 
ID Number: TMSCLUSTER02\TMSSQL02.photo:13676
Source: date from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: President Lincoln visiting the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: Oct. 3, 1862
Location United States
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego

Title: Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: July 6, 1863
Location United States
Material: albumen silver print
Measurements: 17.7x23cm
Subject: United States -- Civil War, 1861–1865 -- Battlefields, Battles, Confederate States of America. Army -- Battle casualties. Death, Firearms, Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863, Photography -- 19th C. A.D Soldiers -- United States
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego

Title: Lewis Payne, a Conspirator
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: 1865
Material: albumen print
Repository: Library of Congress
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865 -- Assassination, Payne, Lewis, 1845–1865, Conspirators, Photography -- 19th C.
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego

Title: Execution of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Adjusting the Ropes.
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: July 7, 1865
Material: albumen print
Measurements: 16.8 x 23.4 cm.
Description: Inscription: recto-(printed on mount) "2086". (in ink) "Execution of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators". "Adjusting the Ropes."
Repository: George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1972:0033:0035
Collection: George Eastman House
ID Number: 106867

Title: Ford's Theatre, Washington, (Where President Lincoln was Assassinated)
Creator: Alexander Gardner, American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: 1865
Material: albumen print
Measurements: 17.8 x 23.4 cm.
Description: Inscription: recto-(printed on mount) “2069” (in ink) “Ford's Theatre, Washington, (Where President Lincoln was. Assassinated)”
Repository: George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1972:0033:0001
Collection: George Eastman House
ID Number: 106824

Title: Self-Portrait
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Date: 1886
Subject: Photography -- 19th C. A.D
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego
Rights: © 2005 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Title: The Steerage
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Work Type: Photographs
Date: 1907
Material: photogravure
Measurements: H.7-3/4 x W.6-3/16 in. (image)
Repository: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, gift of Julia Marshall,  69.133.35.9
Collection: The Image Gallery Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: MIA_.69.133.35.9
Source: date from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Title: The Terminal
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Work Type: Photographs
Date: 1892
Material: photogravure
Measurements: H.4-13/16 x W.6-1/4 in.
Repository: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, gift of Julia Marshall  69.133.35.15
Collection: The Image Gallery Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: MIA_.69.133.35.15
Source: date from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Title: Going to the Start
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Work Type: Photographs
Date: 1904
Material: photogravure
Measurements: H.8-3/8 x W.7-1/2 in. (image)
Repository: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, gift of Julia Marshall, 69.133.11.3
Collection: The Image Gallery  Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: MIA_.69.133.11.3
Source: date from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Title: (Ref.) Invivtation to view “Camera Works”
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Subject: Photography -- 20th C. A.D Reference
Collection: ARTstor Slide Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego
Rights: © 2008 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Title: Georgia O'Keeffe
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Date: 1933
Subject: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887–1986, Photography -- 20th C. A.D, Portraits
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego

Title: John Marin
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Date: 1922
Subject: Photography -- 20th C. A.D
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego
Rights: © 2005 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Title: Marsden Hartley
Ceator Alfred Stieglitz, American, 1864–1946
Date: 1915
Subject: Photography -- 20th C. A.D
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: date from University of California, San Diego
Rights: © 2005 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Title: Black Iris
Creator: Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887–1986
Date: 1926
Material: Oil on canvas
Measurements: H. 36, W. 29-7/8 inches (91.4 x 75.9 cm.)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art—Images for Academic Publishing
ID Number: 10049
Source: date from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights: © 2008 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Title: Lower Manhattan
Creator: John Marin, 1870–1953
Work Type: Cityscapes
Date: 1922
Material: Watercolor
Measurements: 21 5/8 x 26 7/8 inches
Style Period: Abstract Expressionist
Description: Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss bequest
Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Accession Number: #143.45
Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)  Painting, American -- 20th century
Collection: The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
Source: data from University of Georgia Libraries

Title: Grey Sea
Creator: John Marin, 1870–1953
Date: 1924
Material: Watercolor and black chalk on off-white watercolor paper
Measurements: 16 1/2 x 20 3/16 in.; 41.91 x 51.27625 cm. (irregular)
Repository: The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1926
Collection: The Phillips Collection
ID Number: 1285
Source: Image and original data provided by The Phillips Collection

Title: Portrait of a German Officer
Creator: Marsden Hartley, American, 1877–1943
Date: 1914
Material: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 68 1/4 x 41 3/8in. (173.4 x 105.1cm)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949, 49.70.42
Collection: The Image Gallery
ID Number: TMSCLUSTER01\TMSSQL01.modern:8711
Source: date from The Metropolitan Museum of Art