Tag: La Stampa Sportiva
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Translation: October 1904 La Stampa Sportiva: The Vanderbilt Cup
Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has forwarded several articles on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and the Vanderbilt Cup Races from the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva published from 1902 to 1910.
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Translation: May 1902 La Stampa Sportiva: Vanderbilt, Jr. Breaks the One-Kilometer Land Speed Record
Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has forwarded two articles on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. breaking the one-kilometer land speed record twice in 1902 as reported in the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva. Dr. Andrea Fedi has now translated the article.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…