Motor boats on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Motor boats on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927

Date Created

[between February 26, 1927-March 6th, 1927]

Date

1927-02-26/1927-03-07

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of mwo motorboats and one boat engine on display in an exhibition hall at an auto show. A sign hung up near the ceiling indicates these two boats are property of Fred Thomson Productions. The actor and stuntman Fred Thomson was an avid boatsman and boat collector. Reported in "Southland's Greatest Auto Exhibit in History Mecca for Unprecedented Throngs: Show Setting New Records; Indications Point to Eclipse of Attendance Estimates; Crowds Marvel at Color and Beauty of Display; Planes and Motorboats Also Get Share of Attention," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1927: 9.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Motor boat exhibit at Auto show
Text from negative sleeve: Auto Show. 1927

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

glass plate negatives
news photographs

Names

Thomson, Frederick Clifton, 1890-1928

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.031653

Latitude

-118.266607

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Boat engines
Motorboats--American--California--Los Angeles