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Item 35456
Title: Race car on Thurlow Hill, Poland, June 17, 1911
Contributed by: Stanley Museum
Date: 1911-06-17
Location: Poland
Media: Black & White Photograph
Item 35458
Title: Race Car at the Thurlow Hill Climb, Poland, 1911
Contributed by: Stanley Museum
Date: 1911-06-17
Location: Poland
Media: Black & White Photograph
Item 35453
Title: Fred Belcher in a Knox racecar, Poland Spring, 1911
Contributed by: Stanley Museum
Date: 1911
Location: Poland Spring
Media: Black & White Photograph
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Exhibit
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
Exhibit
Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist
Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.