National auto racing news

Description

Title: National auto racing news
Published / Created: 1942 November 19
Publication Place: East Paterson (N.J.)
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.
Description: 1 portfolio (2 newsletters).
Extent: 8 : ill. ; 44 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: GEN MSS 848
Collection Title: Thompson Speedway photograph album, Thompson, Connecticut, and material related to automobile racing
Collection / Other Creator: O'Reilly, Donald E., 1913-2000
Container / Volume: Box 1 | Portfolio 2

Format: text
Genre: Newspapers
Photomechanical prints
Subject (Topic): Automobile racing drivers--Portraits
Automobile racing--Accidents--Pictorial works
Automobile racing--Periodicals
Automobile racing--United States--History

Access: Public
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Citation: Louis H. Collins, Thompson Speedway Photograph Album, Thompson, Connecticut, and Material Related to Automobile Racing. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.