Racetrack Scoreboard at Multnomah County Fair
by Buchtel, Chester 1950s
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Photograph of a horse racetrack scoreboard at the Gresham Park Track in the Multnomah County Fairgrounds. The photograph was taken by Chester Buchtel, a fireman and one of the most prolific serial arsonists in Oregon history. Buchtel was committed to Oregon State Hospital in 1925, and was released after some years; he later became a Portland-based photographer.
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- Description
- Photograph of a horse racetrack scoreboard at the Gresham Park Track in the Multnomah County Fairgrounds. The photograph was taken by Chester Buchtel, a fireman and one of the most prolific serial arsonists in Oregon history. Buchtel was committed to Oregon State Hospital in 1925, and was released after some years; he later became a Portland-based photographer.
- Provenance
- Found in collections. The Multnomah County Fair was held in Gresham from 1907 to 1969, and was a mainstay annual event in the area for much of that time. The racetrack took up nearly half of the 50 acres of the fairgrounds in Gresham, and was used for commercial horseracing during the fair. A report by the City Club of Portland in 1959, around the time that the photo was taken, argued for the elimination of racing from the fair, due its commercial, rather than community-oriented, nature.
- Date
- 1950s
- Creator
- Buchtel, Chester
- Subject
- Racetracks
- Racetracks (Horse racing)
- Multnomah County Fair
- Fairs
- Scoreboards
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs2236
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
