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Title: Gaston Chevrolet
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1918
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Close-up of Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American race car champion driver and automobile manufacturer. Gaston was the brother of Louis Chevrolet, founder of the Chevrolet car company. In 1920, while competing in the last race of the season on the board track at the Beverly Hills Speedway, Chevrolet was killed when his Frontenac crashed on lap 146 of the 200 lap race.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106772
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1609
CARL0005329341
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32124
Subject: Chevrolet, Louis,--1878-1941--Family
Automobile racing drivers--United States
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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