File:1916 Tacoma Speedway Omar Toft Marvin D Boland Collection G511121 (cropped).jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
1916_Tacoma_Speedway_Omar_Toft_Marvin_D_Boland_Collection_G511121_(cropped).jpg (207 × 367 pixels, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]Photographer |
creator QS:P170,Q21714431 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Omar Toft, behind the wheel of his "Omar Special" #5, was one of 14 drivers who competed in the Montamarathon Classic held at the Tacoma Speedway on August 5th, 1916. The 300 mile race, the longest held in the Northwest, carried a purse of $10,000. Eddie Rickenbacker won with an average speed just shy of 90 mph; Toft finished 6th, winning $250. The usual July 4th date for the Montamarathon was usurped by a scheduled, two car grudge match between Seattle driver Jim Parsons and Tacoman Ulysses Audrey. That race was cancelled at the last minute due to Parsons' car troubles. Although an alternate program was presented on July 4th that included a head on collision between two locomotives, it was fast cars that Tacoma craved. Fans showed their displeasure by staying away from the August Race; only about 10,000 fans, about a fifth of the previous year's crowd, showed up on the 5th. TPL-1644, Speedway-046 (T. Tribune 8/5/16, pg.1; 8/6/16, pg.1; TDL 7/4/1920, pg. 1-C- history of the races) |
|||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Omar Toft | |||||||||||||||||||
Depicted place | Tacoma Speedway | |||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa August 1916 date QS:P571,+1916-08-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Medium | black and white photograph | |||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 5 × 7 in (12.7 × 17.7 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7674007 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
Northwest Room - Marvin D. Boland Collection |
|||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
79\30967.jpg |
|||||||||||||||||||
Source | http://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17061coll21/id/29809 | |||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
|
Licensing
[edit]Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
The author died in 1950, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. | |
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 07:49, 26 September 2019 | 207 × 367 (13 KB) | Hedwig in Washington (talk | contribs) | File:1916 Tacoma Speedway Omar Toft Marvin D Boland Collection G511121.jpg cropped 90 % horizontally, 75 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode. |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 3 pages use this file: