View at a Los Angeles racetrack showing race car driver "Wild" Bob Burman at the wheel of a Peugeot car with number 7 on front and a California license plate. Three unidentified young men are also in the view. Title, date and location determined from writing on item. "'Wild' Bob Burman"--text, handwritten in ink on verso. "Earl G. Reed. Los Angeles, Calif. 1916"--handwritten in ink on verso, and stamped: "Made by Stagg Photo Service tel A-4554; 111 North Broadway please credit." Bob Burman raced in the opening race of the 1916 season at Ascot Park, held March 5, 1916. (Motor Age, March 9, 1916). He died in a crash April 8, 1916 at the 1916 Corona Boulevard Race in Corona, California. Ascot Park racetrack operated 1904-1919, at Central and Florence Avenues in South Los Angeles (In “History of America's Speedways, Past and Present" by Allan E. Brown).
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