Image / Automobile race on Foothill Blvd. [picture] : Portola Festival Road Race

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Title: Automobile race on Foothill Blvd. [picture] : Portola Festival Road Race
Creator: Frost, Frank Edmund Hill "Jack", 1879-1947
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909 October 24
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from item. The image depicts cars racing in the Portola Festival Road Race along Foothill Blvd. through the Elmhurst section of East Oakland. The race would be won by Jack Fleming, driving a Pope-Hartford automobile. The hills of San Leandro, Calif. are visible in the distance.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 23 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7f59r095
copl_120
Subject: Automobile racing - History - Pictorial works
Streets - California - Alameda County
Lincoln Highway - History - Pictorial works
Portola Festival (1909 : San Francisco) - Pictorial works
Place: Elmhurst (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.
East Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
San Leandro (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.

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