Track on Madison S. Garden – Historic Reproduction
(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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Track on Madison S. Garden
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Here the subject is a racing track inside Madison Square Garden in New York, an arena that hosted indoor sporting events for much of the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, but the Bain News Service, which covered New York news during those years, was active when the building's track drew large crowds. Indoor bicycle racing, especially long multi-day events, was a major draw there, and the banked wooden surfaces of such tracks shaped both the speed of the riders and the spectators' view. The glass negative format reflects the large-format photography common in that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-32910 |
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