Image / De Palma driving Mercer, Santa Monica road race, May 4, 1912

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Title: De Palma driving Mercer, Santa Monica road race, May 4, 1912
Creator: Palmerston, H. F
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
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: Image of race car driver Ralph DePalma driving the Mercer number 5 in which he won the Santa Monica Road Race, medium car division, on a dirt road in Santa Monica, California, May 4, 1912, with a trolley car, palm trees, and spectators in the background.
"De Palma driving Mercer, Santa Monica road race, May 4, 1912. Palmerston Photo B168"--text, on item. Title and date transcribed from item. Related item photCL_555_01_1601 has the same car and driver. 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 8.7 x 13.8 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19862
Subject: DePalma, Ralph, 1882-1956
Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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