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Title: Race car at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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1936
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: View of driver Leo [Frochick? Froebich?] wearing goggles, sitting in a race car that says "Mack Spl. 81." A mechanic is working on the car in front. The racetrack and bleachers are in the background, at Legion Ascot Speedway in City Terrace, East Los Angeles.
Title devised by cataloger. "Leo Frochick"[?]--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Location determined by research and grouping with related photographs - (see photCL_555_01_307). Legion Ascot Speedway operated 1924-1936 in City Terrace, East Los Angeles. (Source: “History of America's Speedways, Past and Present" by Allan E. Brown). No information found on this driver - spelling is unclear.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 6.7 x 11.2 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20403
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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