Tag: Ralph Peters
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Mar 15 2017
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Vanderbilt Cup Race Scrapbook Discovered in Garden City
The Garden City Archives have discovered a small scrapbook of photos from the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. The scrapbook was a gift from Dorothy Peters Hubbell, whose family had direct links to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the founding of Garden City.
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Nov 07 2016
Mystery Foto #45 Solved: Frederick G. Bourne at the South Side Sportsman’s Club in a 1901 Winton
Philip Selvaggio challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Dec 28 2013
Vanderbilia Postcard Series #2: The Locomobile Postcards of the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
In celebration of its surprising third place finish in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Locomobile Company of Bridgeport , Connecticut published a series of 12 postcards showing the #7 racer driven by Joe Tracy and Al Poole.
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Aug 10 2013
Anatomy of a 1907 Motor Parkway Cartoon
By late 1907, the route of the Long Island Motor Parkway became public. In September 1907, the trade magazine Automobile Topics published this cartoon addressing; "How the Motor Parkway Became Kinky."
