Image / Swede Smith in car at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles

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Title: Swede Smith in car at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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1934
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Race car driver "Swede" Smith (George Smyth) in race car number 45 at Legion Ascot Speedway in City Terrace, East Los Angeles.
Title devised by cataloger. "Swede Smith - driver. Modern Auto Spec. - No. 45. Ascot." --text, handwritten in ink on verso. Race car driver George L. Smyth (1899-1934) was mostly known as "Swede" Smith. (Source: “History of America's Speedways, Past and Present" by Allan E. Brown).
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 6.6 x 11 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20421
Subject: Automobile racing drivers
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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