Thompson Speedway photograph album, Thompson, Connecticut, and material related to automobile
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Portfolio 2
Image Count:
16
Abstract:
Collection consisting of a photograph album, loose photographs, and other material chiefly created and compiled by Louis H. Collins, circa 1930-1949. The album consists of eighty-six photographs chiefly created by Collins, as well as eleven associated newspaper clippings, which document automobile races at the Thompson Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut, during its first two summer seasons, July 1940 to August 1941. Thirty-six loose photographic prints and seven newspaper clippings that were formerly laid in the album document other racetracks, including the Readville Race Track in Boston, Massachusetts; the Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York; and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. There are also two complete issues of automobile racing newsletters consisting of Auto Racing History, circa 1941, and the National Auto Racing News, November 19, 1942.
Alternative Title:
The wooden speedway, start to finish
Description:
1 portfolio (2 newsletters).
Subject (Topic):
Automobile racing drivers--Portraits, Automobile racing--Accidents--Pictorial works, Automobile racing--Periodicals, and Automobile racing--United States--History
Advocate and journal and Zion's herald, Christian advocate and journal, and Zion's herald
Description:
BEIN Folio MMim10 C318: Vol. 7 bound with v.8 of Christian advocate and journal (New York, N.Y. : 1833)., Formed by the merger of: Christian advocate and journal (New York, N.Y. : 1827), and: Zion's herald (Boston, Mass. : 1823)., Numbering continues from Christian advocate and journal., and Weekly
Publisher:
J. Emory and B. Waugh for the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Subject (Geographic):
New York (N.Y.)--Newspapers
Subject (Name):
Methodist Episcopal Church--New York (State)--New York--Newspapers