Santa Monica Road Races revival, three cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1950

Item Overview

Title

Santa Monica Road Races revival, three cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1950

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

1950

Date

1950

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 25, 1950, Old-Time Cars to Revive Noted Santa Monica Race. Santa Monica’s famous road race for the Vanderbilt Cup will be revived Sunday, July 16, when 12 old-time race cars roar around a two-mile course … It will be the first time the event has been revived since the seven years from 1910 to 1916. …
Three 1910s-style cars, each with two men wearing helmets and goggles, with crowd on curb and in grandstand at right, palm trees in background, road in foreground

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2983, #10 to 24, 6/6/50, Santa Monica Road Races 1911-14, Copies of originals, See other set of prints numbered from 25 but no negs

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

acetate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Santa Monica Road Races (Automobile race)

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Transportation
Sports
Automobile racing--California--Santa Monica
Entertainment