Image / Santa Monica road race on Wilshire Blvd

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Title: Santa Monica road race on Wilshire Blvd
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
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: A race car going down Wilshire Boulevard near 14th Street, in Santa Monica, during the Santa Monica road race season. Spectators line the road, and houses can be seen in the background.
Title devised by cataloger based on writing on back: "14th & Wilshire looking towards Vetani home"--text, handwritten in ink on verso. "1917" -- text, handwritten on front. 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 9.2 x 14.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19880
Subject: Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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