Ab Jenkins

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Title Ab Jenkins
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001353106
Photo Number 26001
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 21 November 1942
Date 1942-11-21
Subject Women in popular culture; Racing automobiles; Mayors
Person Jenkins, Ab
Other Subject Automobile racing -- Utah -- Bonneville Salt Flats; Carriages and coaches
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Historic Address 451 South State Street
Comment Ab Jenkins, Mayor of Salt Lake City, was greeting a girl in a coach at the Salt Lake City and County Building. Ab Jenkins set numerous automobile speed records on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats between 1932 and 1956, drove the Mormon Meteor III, and served as mayor of Salt Lake City from 1940-1943.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2004 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photo Collection, 921 Biography
Source Format Paper print
Source Size 10 inches x 8 inches
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Image scanned on Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner at TIFF: 800 ppi resolution and 8-bit grayscale. Dimensions are JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels.
Scanned By Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6t15b44
Setname dha_cp
ID 431752
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t15b44