Professional walker Dan O'Leary passes at 91, Los Angeles, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Professional walker Dan O'Leary passes at 91, Los Angeles, 1933
- Date Created
- May 30, 1933
- Date
- 1933-05-30
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Dan O'Leary's Journeys End," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1933: A12.
Mr. O'Leary stands in front of a brick wall, his eyes sallow as he stares directly into the camera.
A month shy of his 92nd birthday, Irishman and professional walker Dan O'Leary died of a heart attack. Mr. O'Leary's greatest accomplishments were walking a mile at the beginning of each hour for 1000 consecutive hours at age 66 and walking to every State capital in the country starting at age 80 over a period of ten years. - Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: Dan O'Leary
Handwritten on negative: Dan O Leary p+q
Text from negative sleeve: O'LEARY, DAN WALKER, 1933
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- O'Leary, Dan, 1841-1933
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Older people--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6902
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cx6mz
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .