Stunt driver Hayward Thompson getting his blindfold checked, Los Angeles, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Stunt driver Hayward Thompson getting his blindfold checked, Los Angeles, 1927
- Date Created
- January 31, 1927
- Date
- 1927-01-31
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
An unidentified man adjusts Hayward Thompson’s blindfold. His chiropractor, H. B. Logan, is seen behind the man, in a black suit.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Thompson, Hayward
Logan, H. B. - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.041907
- Latitude
- -118.266852
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles
Blindfolds
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3791
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpg3x
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .