Derby Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 1921 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Derby Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 1921 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: 1921 Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky.
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Derby Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 1921
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Louisville, Kentucky, in 1921 was a river city on the Ohio whose commerce rested on tobacco, rail freight, and the whiskey trade, though national Prohibition, in force since 1920, had shut down legal distilling. Churchill Downs, the track on the city's south side that opened in 1875, staged the Kentucky Derby each spring, and by the early 1920s the race was a fixed fixture of the local calendar. This view shows the grandstand and track during a period when the Derby was becoming the center of the city's public life and of the Southern racing season. For Louisville residents, the track was a civic institution as much as a sporting venue, and the Derby marked the arrival of spring in a city still shaped by river trade and by the horse farms of the Bluegrass beyond.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Creator | caufield & shook |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Kentucky |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,513 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 1921 Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky. |
| Reference | KY Derby Churchill Downs 1921 |
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