John Leckie standing next to his homemade horseless carriage, Santa Ana, 1898
Item Overview
- Title
- John Leckie standing next to his homemade horseless carriage, Santa Ana, 1898
- Date Created
- September 22, 1898
- Date
- 1898-09-22
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
- A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "New Era of Production. Next in Importance to Iron and Steel is the Automobile Industry," Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1918: VI1.
- Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Sept 22 - 1898
Text from negative sleeve: Autos old.
Text from newspaper caption in negative sleeve: Probably California Oldest. This home-made contraption used to scare people to death was built by a man named John Leck, who still lives in Sa at the scandalous speed of five miles an hour.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
glass plate negatives - Names
- Leckie, J. E. (John Edwards), 1872-1950
- Location
- Santa Ana (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Automobiles--American--California--Santa Ana
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3691_G225
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002ndpt
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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