Roosevelt Raceway opens – Historic 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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This historic photograph of Roosevelt Raceway opens brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Roosevelt Raceway opens
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This United Press photograph is tied to Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, on Long Island, New York, and its caption card dates the opening to August 1, 1957. The card is old and the record flags its data as unverified, so the exact nature of the event is worth checking against other sources. Roosevelt Raceway was best known for harness racing, and wire-service pictures like this one were used to show readers new sporting venues and the crowds that came to them in the postwar years.
| Created / published | 1957 Aug. 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by United Press. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--Westbury; Photog. I.; NY--Long Island; Horse racing; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140590 |
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