Washington Park Club House
Chicago
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| Title | Washington Park Club House |
| Description | Caption: "Washington Park Club House, and "Derby Day"[.] The most notable of racing tracks in Chicago is Washington Park, especially famous for its "Derby Day," usually run some Saturday in June. This event attracts from seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand people, and the splendid turn-outs of beauty and fashion and gay equipages rival in interest the great racing event itself. The driving park, one of the best in the country, is located at Sixty-first Street and South Park Avenue."" |
| Date | 1906 |
| Type | Photographs |
| File Name | chicago00lhne_raw_0042.jp2 |
| Source Page | http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/40/mode/2up |
| Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne |
| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Subject | Racetracks (Horse racing) |
| Coverage-Spatial | Woodlawn (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
| Publisher | |
| Rights | Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu. |
| Book Title | Chicago |
| Author of the Book | L. H. Nelson Company |
| Collection Title | Picture Chicago |
| Collection | Picture Chicago |
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