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“A reconstructed view over the Campus Martius, where many of the entertainment buildings were constructed. In the foreground is the Theatre of Pompey with the Portico, and the Theatre of Balbus beyond. At the top of the picture, on the banks of...
1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, in Winner's Circle draped with garland of roses, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Owner - (of horse) H.P. Gardner, Trainer - Clyde Van Dusen, Jockey - Linus McAfee. A group of men, including two...
1936 Derby crowd in garden area at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Crowd of people around a garden with rocks, small plants, and a central pond with a tiered fountain coming out of a pile of rocks. Most of the crowd is behind...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Some spectators sit above and most stand shoulder to shoulder on the ground behind a fence outside the track. Across the track, there is also a smaller crowd at the...
Aerial view of Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, 1933. Aerial view of half of the track--a curve and a straightaway. Buildings are visible outside the track. The 1933 Kentucky Derby took place on May 6.
Aerial view of race track at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. Behind the track are diagonal residential blocks. In front of the track, both perpendicular and diagonal, are a number of similar long, low buildings with peak roofs. The...
Boy with ladder at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Four men congregate around a boy and two ladders; the boy leans on one of the ladders. They are in front of a high chicken wire fence.
Racetracks (Horse racing); Keeneland Association (Lexington, Ky.); Buildings; Building construction
Buildings nearing completion for 1936 opening, Keeneland Association, Lexington Kentucky. Buildings with one to three-story sections of different sized stone and dark windows. The buildings have two layered tops like the tops of castles. The...
Racetracks (Horse racing); Keeneland Association (Lexington, Ky.); Buildings; Building construction
Buildings nearing completion for 1936 opening, Keeneland Association, Lexington, Kentucky. A three-story section of the buildings, from the left side. The buildings are of different sized stone and dark windows, and have two layered tops like the...
Racetracks (Horse racing); Keeneland Association (Lexington, Ky.); Buildings; Building construction
Buildings nearing completion for 1936 opening, Keeneland Association, Lexington, Kentucky. Panoramic photograph of two to three-story buildings of different sized stone and dark windows. At the sides the buildings have two layered tops like the...
Carpenters building and remodeling at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. A man facing the camera saws a board, and to his right a man facing away from the camera looks up at a wood kiosk. The men are within a pillared, roofed area with one...
Carpenters building and remodeling at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Two men standing on a long board held up by two ladders place a board into a white exterior wall, while a third man stands below to the right and holds another board...
Churchill Downs spectators in the grandstand and photographers at the track, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. The grandstand is filled, and a large crowd also gathers in front of it, on the dirt behind the track's fence. This crowd includes men and some...
Crowd admiring 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 5, 1934. Cavalcade and his jockey are admired as they display the garland of roses, edged by a small crowd at close range and further out an enormous...
Crowd in garden area at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. A crowd of men and women mingles or sits in wooden armchairs on a brick path encircling a square of grass and plantings in a circular pattern of petal-like sections. At the center...
