Race car driver Bob Swanson competes at the Legion Ascot speedway, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Race car driver Bob Swanson competes at the Legion Ascot speedway, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- August 18, 1935
- Date
- 1935-08-18
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Racing star Bob Swanson competes against Rex Mays in a "midget" car decorated with Felix the Cat at the Legion Ascot speedway. The day's program consisted of a variety of challenges, with both drivers using "big" cars and "midget" cars during different races. Both drivers were later killed in accidents on the track.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mays, Rex; Swanson, Bob
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Bob Swanson
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Legion Ascot Speedway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Swanson, Bob, 1912-1940 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Automobile racing--California--Los Angeles
Sports
People
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00254p35
- 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 .