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[Auto races at Kentucky State Fair] – Antique Print

[Auto races at Kentucky State Fair] — historic photograph
[Auto races at Kentucky State Fair]. Historic photograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Auto races at Kentucky State Fair]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Auto racing at the Kentucky State Fair is the subject here, a detail that sets this view apart from the fairground scenes of farm animals and exhibit halls that usually fill a county fair board. The photograph dates to about 1934, a period when stock-car and open-wheel racing had become a popular draw at state fairs across the country, pulling crowds that often outnumbered those for livestock judging. The print was made by Caufield & Shook, a Louisville studio known for its commercial and documentary photography of the region. Its catalog card lists auto racing, fairs and Kentucky, and the record notes that its details come from old caption data and have not been verified.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1934.
SubjectsCopyright by Caufield & Shook, Louisville, Ky. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Auto racing; Fairs; Kentucky--Misc.; Shelf.; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,379 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137273

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