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Washington Park Club House


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
Identifier	chicago00lhne_raw_0042.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/40/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Chicago
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Washington Park Racetrack (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject	Racetracks (Horse racing)
Coverage-Spatial	Woodlawn (Chicago, Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
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.
Sub-Collection	Buildings People Recreation
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago
Author of the Book	L. H. Nelson Company
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne

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