Image of an elevated landscape view of the Hampden Park Race Track in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a crowded scene of participants and spectators for the September 1883 Springfield Bicycle Club cycling tournament with ticket booth and a steam locomotive and railroad tracks in the foreground, and the race track with tents, cyclists on high-wheel bicycles circling a course, and a grandstand in the background; the Connecticut River with boats including a steamboat, and the surrounding hillsides are in the distance. Probable date based on item title. "Lith. of Milton Bradley & Co. / Springfield, Mass."--text, bottom left corner of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 61.12 x 76.2 cm (24 1/16 x 30 in.)
Springfield (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Advertising--Bicycles Bicycles and bicycling--Pictorial works Bicycle racing--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Parks--Pictorial works Racetracks (Horse racing)--Pictorial works Velodromes Springfield Bicycle Club Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Documentary prints. (local)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Bicycle The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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