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Title: Wanted: 1 wing-walker
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated May 3, 1962 reads, "Vicki Biss, 18-year-old Riverside City College coed who enjoys 'doing funny things,' answered an unusual ad to perform a daring 'wing-walking' act in the National Air-Circus at Riverside Raceway Saturday and Sunday. The former Miss Palm Springs will do her wing-stand trick as the stunt plane rolls and loops at 180 miles per hour."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00131785
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d037_f4_i26
CARL0005543614
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/62054
Subject: Riverside International Raceway
Stunt performers--California--Riverside
Women stunt performers--California--Riverside
Beauty contestants--California--Riverside
Women--California--Riverside
Airplanes--California--Riverside
Racetracks (Automobile racing)--California--Riverside
Riverside (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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