Ab Jenkins

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Title Ab Jenkins
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001353122
Photo Number 26144
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 19 September 1949
Date 1949-09-19
Subject Automobile racing -- Utah -- Bonneville Salt Flats; Racing automobiles; Mayors; Automobile service stations
Person Jenkins, Ab
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Comment Ab Jenkins (right) was "X-Raying" his racecar, the Mormon Meteor, at the Lang Company. 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/s6s75pt0
Setname dha_cp
ID 431729
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s75pt0
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