The Detroit Public Library has posted 34,407 photos from their National Automotive Collection.
The images include photos of the Vanderbilt Cup Races taken by Nathan Lazarnick and Spooner & Wells.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.
Comments
Howard,
I know I speak for many in saying how much we appreciate your continued efforts at uncovering, preserving and sharing our motorsports heritage.
Excellent collection
Howard, Thanks so much for this tip. This is a really amazing collection! I knew parts of it were online, but this is really fantastic and besides, the resolution of the pictures has much improved. I already spotted some real treasures, so I guess all my spare time for the coming months has been spent in advance. However I’m afraid, there is one person in the house, who will probably not be as delighted as I am 😉
Wow! Lots of work went into this. Nice catch Howard.
A Treasure of 34,407 mystery photos!
Ha Greg O, you’re so right about that, along with so many questions could be asked with unsolved answers and I didn’t even finish looking at them yet, which I will do by the end of the week, just in case there’s a mystery about them for this weekend
Thanks Howard for the link to this fantastic collection. I’ll be spending part of the holiday weekend browsing through it. It may take a few months to check them all out but it will sure be interesting.
Very nice resource! Thanks for posting it.