Race car drivers Rex Mays and Bob Swanson race at the Legion Ascot speedway, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Race car drivers Rex Mays and Bob Swanson race at the Legion Ascot speedway, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: August 18, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Famed driver Rex Mays goes up against champion of the "midget" cars Bob Swanson at a race 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: Handwritten annotatin from nitrate negative: Mays-Swanson race
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mays, Rex; Swanson, Bob

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: People
Sports
Automobile racing--California--Los Angeles
Names: Swanson, Bob, 1912-1940
Mays, Rex, 1913-1949
Legion Ascot Speedway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_11573-07
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00254nv2
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Rights Country: US
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