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Image 1 — Historical flag help! Belmont Park in NY in 1910 - 1915
Image 2 — Historical flag help! Belmont Park in NY in 1910 - 1915

Historical flag help! Belmont Park in NY in 1910 - 1915

Image 1 is what I found online of an old track (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ggbain/item/2014693241/) but then realized... what are those flags? Image 2 are my best guesses but they don't fully make sense.

Left to right:

  1. Costa Rica?
  2. Germany or Persia?
  3. Vatican?
  4. Germany or Persia?
  5. USA
  6. Canada
  7. France or Italy?
  8. France or Italy?

The main one that confuses me is the one on the far right that looks like Costa Rica, that just feels so random. There's a huge hispanic/central american population in Racing nowadays but it was not the case then, and even today its not Costa Rican. I can get Germany and Persia and even France but Italy is weird to me, but that's also not how the flag was there was the emblem then.

Any ideas? :)

u/ApollosBucket — 11 days ago