Hayward Thompson gets into car for blindfolded drive, Los Angeles, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Hayward Thompson gets into car for blindfolded drive, Los Angeles, 1927
- Date Created
- January 31, 1927
- Date
- 1927-01-31
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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W. H. Watson helps Hayward Thompson into his car for a stunt drive. The view is largely obstructed by a man’s hat.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12
Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Thompson, Hayward
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3794
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpg6g
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .