Item 1528: Rail race, 1927

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A1528. August 1927. Image depicts young boys engaged in a rail race, most likely as part of a "Field Day" organized by the Draper Corporation for Draper Corporation employees. Teams of young boys race holding a rail on which two other boys sit. One rail lays on the grass on the left; another team seems to have had one boy fall off the "rail" in the center background. Spectators look on from the side of the field. 25 x 20.25 cm.