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Title: "Race Thru the Clouds" roller coaster and lagoon, Venice, California
Creator: de Haaff, Mauritz, 1877-1948
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
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1925
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1927
1928
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 the Race Thru the Clouds roller coaster next to the Venice Lagoon in Venice, California, with railroad tracks in the foreground at left.
"DeHaaff Color Photo Engraving top floor San Fernando Building 4th and Main Sts. Los Angeles"--text, stamped on verso."V.R. Plukas P.O. box 660 Santa Monica Ca 90406"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the history of the "Race Thru the Clouds" roller coaster which operated from 1911-1923.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 20.3 x 25.6 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20042
Subject: Amusement parks
Roller coasters
Amusement rides
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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