Illustration from Sports Page of Daily Picayune, circa 1890
This file appears in: Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890
On the top right, cyclers are depicted riding on the race track at Audubon Park. In the background is Horticultural Hall, a remnant of the World's Industrial Cotton Exposition, 1884-85.
Courtesy of The Times-Picayune
This file appears in: Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890
Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890
The Audubon Driving Park Track was used in the late 1880s as a horse racing track. ("Driving" referred to horse riding.) Audubon Park, built in 1879, had been the site of the World's Industrial Cotton…