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Title: Elm Ridge Race Track
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Elm Ridge Track Racing Events
Description: This booklet features the program of October 17, 1908 for 11 races, including ladies, motorcycle, and special challenge competitions held at Elm Ridge track in Kansas City. Features member roster and committees of the Automobile Club, pictures of local drives, race rules, and full-page ads. Map of Jackson County highlights rock roads, dirt roads, and good dirt roads.
Date: 1905-03-22
Object Type: Book

Title: Golf Where Horses Raced
Description: History of the grounds starting in 1904 as a horse racetrack and later becoming a golf course of Blue Hills Country Club.
Date: 1959-09-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Old Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: Photo of a car driving on the Old Elm Ridge Race Track in Kansas City, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Postcard from Old Kansas City
Description: Photo and article about the Elm Ridge Race Track, in operation from 1904 to 1906 "a block east of the Paseo between Fifty-ninth and Sixty-third streets," closed because of the ban on gambling and next occupied by the Blue Hills Country Club in 1912.
Date: 1968-11-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Old Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: Photograph of a car driving on Old Elm Ridge Race Track in Kansas City, Missouri. The driver is a woman.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: Postcard of the race Track and clubhouse at Elm Ridge.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Old Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: View of two cars on the Old Elm Ridge Race Track in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1896-1907, Page p369
Description: Southern part of early Kansas City from 59th Street south to 63rd Street and from Lydia Avenue east to Euclid Avenue, showing buildings, street,s and the Kansas City Jockey Club and Fair Association, later becoming Blue Hills Country Club. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At top of map, "Add'l Sheet, Oct. 1904."
Date: 1896/1907
Object Type: Map

Title: Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: Folder contains a racing card entitled "Special Racing", Elm Ridge, Friday, September 27. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Golf Shots Dropping on "Race Track" Recall Elm Ridge Days of Blue Hills
Description: Article about the golf course's former days as a racetrack for horse racing, with photo and illustration.
Date: 1954-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Elm Ridge Race Track
Description: Article about the Elm Ridge Race Track.
Date: 1937-05-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Automobile Club of Kansas City Cover
Description: Cover of a booklet published by the Automobile Club of Kansas City to promote a racing event held at Elm Ridge Track on October 17, 1908. The illustration of early automobile racers was created by the David E. Sweeny Company.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Artwork