Thompson Speedway photograph album, Thompson, Connecticut, and material related to automobile
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Portfolio 2
Image Count:
8
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).
Subject (Topic):
Automobile racing drivers--Portraits, Automobile racing--Accidents--Pictorial works, Automobile racing--Periodicals, and Automobile racing--United States--History
"Hotsaʼah ḥad-paʻamit"., "הוצאה חד פעמית.", Electronic reproduction. New Haven : Yale University, 2011., ha-Aḥaraʼi: A. Lev., and האחראי: א' לב.
Publisher:
[Defus ḳoʼoperaṭivi "Aḥdut"], [דפוס קואופרטיבי "אחדות"], Hotsaʼat Me-Hodu ṿe-ʻad Kush, and הוצאת מהודו ועד כוש
Subject (Name):
לב, אברהם, 1894-1972. and Lev, Abraham, 1894-1972
Subject (Topic):
Hebrew wit and humor, Hebrew wit and humor--Newspapers., Jewish wit and humor, Jewish wit and humor--Newspapers., Satire, Hebrew, Satire, Hebrew--Palestine--Newspapers., Shavuot., and Shavuot--Humor.
New York spectator, New York spectator and semi-weekly commercial advertiser, New-York spectator (New York, N.Y. : 1804), and Spectator and commercial advertiser
Description:
Daily eds.: New-York commercial advertiser (New York, N.Y. : 1804); Commercial advertiser (New York, N.Y. : 1809); New-York commercial advertiser (New York, N.Y. : 1831)., Imprint varies: Printed, for the Proprietor by J. Mills, Jan. 14, 1804-Feb. 2, 1805; by J. Mills, for Z. Lewis, Feb. 6, 1805-May 18, 1811; Z. Lewis, May 22, 1811-Jan. 13, 1813; Lewis & Hall, Jan. 16, 1813-Apr. 7, 1820; Francis Hall & Co., Apr. 11, 1820-., New York spectator and weekly commercial advertiser, Published as: New York spectator and semi-weekly commercial advertiser, ; as: Spectator and commercial advertiser, ., References: Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, p. 692., Spectator (New York, N.Y. : 1797), and Volume and issue numbering dropped in Feb. 1818.
