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Title: Auto races, Nevada Avenue, Santa Monica, Cal. Oct. 14, 1911
Creator: Rile, H. F., 1860-1949
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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: Elevated view of spectators at the auto races on Nevada Avenue (now Wilshire Boulevard) in Santa Monica, California, on October 14, 1911. A racecar numbered "19" is visible on the dirt road, and a trolley is visible in the distance.
Title and date transcribed from item. The Santa Monica Road Races were held from 1909 until 1919. The course was 8.4 miles, and run on city streets Ocean Avenue, Wilshire Blvd. and San Vicente Blvd. (Source: Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.)
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.8 x 13.7 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19856
Subject: Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Dirt roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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