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Title: Shorty Cantlon's Miller 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: Race car driver Shorty Cantlon seated in "Miller" car at Legion Ascot Speedway in City Terrace, East Los Angeles. The car is number 10 and says "Lion Head special."
Title devised by cataloger. "Shorty Cantlon's Miller "--handwritten in ink on front. 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). Shorty Cantlon had a long career that included Legion Ascot and 13 appearances at Indy. He died at Indianapolis in 1947. (Source: "Dirt Track Auto Racing, 1919-1941: A Pictorial History" by Don Radbruch, 2004.)
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/20412
Subject: Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Automobile racing drivers
Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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