Text from back of image: 'Captain Lowell Smith, commander of the round-the-world flight, has temporarily become an automobile race driver, making his debut at the wheel of a race car at the Culver City, Calif. Speedway on February 17th. He is...
Text from back of image: "Jimmy Murphy, acknowledged king of race drivers, just can't seem to finish in any other position than first. In a survival-of-the-fittest race at the Fresno (California) Raisin Day Classic on April 26, Jimmy piloted his...
Text from back of image: "While judges and contestants are still wrangling over the winning of the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, this photo, just received from Europe, shows the start of the race from Brussels, Belgium. An American...
Letter from Clarke M. Pardee of Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association to William du Pont, Jr. concerning soil tests at Belmont, Aqueduct, and Delaware Park racetracks.
Charles Duryea in car that won the first race in America. Charles Duryea, hailed by many as the inventor of the automobile, is show in the "Buggyaut" in which he won the first race ever held in America.
on back of print: "Matheson 1908 Touring Car. Winner of Wilkes-Barre - Philadelphia Road Race, Jan. 1-2, 1909. at wheel, Wm. Miller, driver. next, F.M. Kirby, owner. right rear, C.W. Matheson."
Text from back of image: "The International Balloon race which started from Belgium a fortngiht ago was the most disastrous in history. Five aeronauts, including two American, were kiled, and another seriously injured. Two foreign and one...
Text from back of image: "The line-up of balloons at the Ford Airport, Detroit, Mich., ready to take off, in the Great International Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race."
Text from back of image: "Captain Ernest de Muyter, of Belgium (holding American flag) above, at Adams, Mass., where he landed after flight from Cleveland, Ohio, start of the 1930 Gordon Balloon Race, was adjudged unofficial second place, to War T....
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Lieut. F. W. Wead, US navy aviator who with A. W. Gorton, another US navy aviator will compete for the Schneider Cup in the Great International Air Race to be held over England next month. Officials at the...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Verville-Sperry monoplane, which is claimed will be able to make 250 miles per hour and will be piloted by Lieut. Elex Pearson in the Pulitzer Air Race. Another feature of this monoplane is that the landing...
Text from back of image: "Great sececy is maintained regarding the Italian planes for this race. However, this seems to be the case with all the other entrants also. The race only will tell us which really was the real mystery of them all. Photo...
Text from back of image: "Captain de Haviland, flying a De Haviland Moth won the King's Cup Air Race, which started and finished at Hatfield Aerodrom, Herts, England, pictured receiving the Winner's Trophy from (?)"
Text from back of image: "A group of American competitors photographed before the start of the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race from Antwerp. Left to right: J. A. Boettner, H. W. Maxon, Healy, Captain H. C. Gray, W. W. Morton, W. J. Van Orman"
