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Racing Primary Source Set

 

 

Car Racing:

Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company (1904, video)

Motorist, Herbert Lytle, sitting in car on the track while a mechanic works on car (1904)

Automobile racing, Harlem Race Track, car moving along inside of track (1904)

Earl Kiser, automobile racer, sitting in a car on a racetrack with the entire car visible (1905)

Automobile racing, 24 Hour Race, racing car being driven along Harlem Race Track, dark exposure (1907)

Auto racing, Speedway Park, car with number twelve is leading other cars in race (1915)

Auto racing, 100 mile race in Speedway Park with four cars starting on track (1915)

Auto racing, Earl Cooper driving Stutz car number eight on dirt road in Elgin (1915)

Auto racing, Speedway Park, crowds sitting in parked cars in center of track (1915)

Chicago's First 500 Mile International Auto Derby, Speedway Prk, Chicago, June 26, 1915.

First Annual International Sweepstake Race, 30 miles, Cincinnati Motor Speedway, Sept. 4, 1916.

Auto racing, 300 mile race in progress at Speedway Park, cars racing past grandstands (1916)

Auto driver, Dario Resta and mechanic sitting in car twenty-one at Speedway Park (1916)

Auto driver, Dario Resta and mechanic sitting in car twenty-one at Speedway Park (1916)

300-mile race in progress at Speedway Park, showing race cars driving on a track toward the camera and a seating area at the right of the image (1916)

Meet us at Ascot Speedway, Sunday, 2 P.M., March 19th. (1916)

Race car wreck / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1910-1920)

Car #17 - road race / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1910-1930)

Auto Races at Overland Park race track / photo by Harry M. Rhoads.(1920-1930)

Race car / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1920-1930)

Auto race at Overland Park / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1920-1930)

Peter de Paolo, winner of the Balto-Washington 250 mile race snapped just before the start today (1925)

Road race - "Kissel" car / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1930-1940)

Winner, George Robson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 1946

 

Horse Racing:

S.- No. 6. Revision. State of New Jersey. An act to prevent horse-racing. [1846?].

Rattler! Winner of the great stallion stake on Long Island, Sept. 30, 1850

Lexington races! Spring meeting. Association course. fourth day. Thursday, May 28, 1857. Purse $300! Two miles heats … (1857)

Hamburg Park. Tuesday, July 26th, 1859, at 4 o'clock Trial of speed Mile heats, best three in five, to saddle ... Also exciting match time ... E. Eastman. Philadelphia U. S. Steam-Power Job printing office, Ledger Buildings [1859].

Stereoscopic views of Long Branch, New Jersey, and vicinity. (96 stereographs) (1860-1890)

Club house at the race course. [Stereograph] (1865)

Official Programme (1885)

Chinook horse racing and spectators, Camas, Washington, ca. 1890-1893.

Oakenheart (the favorite for my money) : Milton race track near Milton, North Dakota. (190-)

Saratoga Springs, N.Y., grand stand, Race Track (1900-1910)

Race course, Saratoga, N.Y.. (1901-1906)

Finish of the one mile race, Derby Day 1901, Louisville, Ky.. (1901)

Horse racing, official weighing jockeys (1903)

The Brooklyn handicap-1904 / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company (1904)

Horse racing, Worth Race Track, four horses racing neck and neck on track (1904)

Horse racing, Worth Race Track, six horses, with jockeys mounted, racing on track (1904)

Horse racing, racehorse with jockey mounted, walking on the track across from grandstand (1904)

Horse racing, Worth Race Track, ten racehorses, with mounted jockeys, racing neck and neck (1904)

Horse racing track seen from bird's-eye infield view, horses racing down track drawn in by hand (1904-1908)

Horse racing, men riding horses through a gate at Harlem Race Track (1905)

Start, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky., The. (1907)

Horse race / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1910-1930)

Elbert County Fair (1911)

Horses racing on a racetrack in or near Chicago, Illinois (1926)

Horse race at track / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. (1927)

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Dade County, FL (1933)

Smith Racing Stables, County Road 75, Prattville, Autauga County, AL (1933)

Longacres, Racing Secretary's Office, 1621 Southwest Sixteenth Street, Renton, King County, WA (1933)

Sulky racing at the Rutland Fair, Rutland, Vermont. (1941)

Roosevelt Raceway. Paddock III. (1958)

Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island. Infield II. (1958)

Ninth annual race meeting, the Berkshire Hunt, Lenox, Mass.

Free-for-all race at Charter Oak Park / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White (video)

Racing at Sheepshead Bay / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White. (video)

The Brooklyn handicap-1904 / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

 

Boat Racing

College Boat-Racing and the New London Regatta. [The Century; a popular quarterly. / Volume 34, Issue 2, June 1887]

Before boat race, Columbian Naval Review, 1892 [i.e. 1893].

Under tow to boat race, Columbian Naval Review, 1892 [i.e. 1893].

The Harvard and Yale Boat-Race. [Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 89, Issue 530, July, 1894]

Yale - Harvard boat race, 1905.

Two racing canoes, Tulalip Bay, ca. 1912

Potomac Boat Club. (1919)

Eight rowers sitting in a racing shell in a body of water near the Lincoln Park Boat Club (1922)

Large model or toy sailboats sitting in water during boat race in Ogden Park (1924)

Large model or toy sailboats in water during boat race in Ogden Park (1924)

Racers sitting in ice boats on a frozen body of water (1926)

Chicago Daily News Motor Boat Race, motorboats sailing in profile on a body of water, light exposure (1927)

Speedboats racing in a body of water near New Orleans, Louisiana (1928)

Speedboat racer Gar Wood sitting in profile in his speedboat Miss America (1930)

Regatta. Three boats racing during 1932

Model yacht and motor boat races : Final championship, Conservatory Lake 72nd St. and 5th Ave., Central Park. (1936/1937)

The Great Race of 1941: A Coast Salish Public Relations Coup

Auto boat race on the Hudson / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

"Columbia" winning the cup / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith.

 

Other

Swimmer H J Handy and another swimmer beginning to dive into a swimming pool during a swimming race (1907)

Marathon swimmers standing on edge of dock preparing to start race (1915)

Unidentified swimmers racing in lane in an outdoor swimming pool during a Chicago Daily News swim meet (1929)

Barrel Racing (1981)

 
 
 
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