[Panorama view of the Lakewood Speedway]
Photograph
[Panorama view of the Lakewood Speedway]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
ca. 1925
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (6.5 × 19 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0058b
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Two pictures of Lakewood Speedway, N.J., between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. The two prints are joined at the five entrance gates to show the sweep of the speedway. A lecturer at the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, said the small 3' high scrub oak such as shown here was a type over 200 years old in this part of N.J. See print of the speedway at a greater distance for further information. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson about 1925.
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