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Title: George Connor at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
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: Signed photograph of race car driver George Connor, seated in a race car on the track at Legion Ascot Speedway in City Terrace, East Los Angeles.
Title devised by cataloger. 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). Newspaper archives show George Connor (1906-2001) was in races at Legion Ascot Speedway in 1933 (and possibly other years). Connor went on to be a successful Indianapolis race car driver.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 6.8 x 9.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20406
Subject: Automobile racing drivers
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Automobile racing
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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