An unremarkable photograph of a grandstand offers insight into how horse racetrack planners thought about audiences, venues, and documentation. Accounting for not only what the photograph reveals but also how it acts as a specific kind of historical evidence, shows how the history of technology can be enriched by further considering photographic and other kinds of visual and nontextual primary sources.
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