Image / Auto racer driving "White Rocket" race car down coast highway, Santa Monica

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Title: Auto racer driving "White Rocket" race car down coast highway, Santa Monica
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an automobile racer driving the "White Rocket" race car on the coast highway in Santa Monica, California.
Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the coast highway which appears to be the paved Roosevelt Highway opened in 1929. This race car could be a version of a steam powered "White Rocket" race car driven by Webb Jay but it is unclear.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.2 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489044
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18901
Subject: Automobiles, Racing
Automobile racing drivers
Pacific Coast Highway
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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