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Title
John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Contributor
Gilmore (client)
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
John Cobb stands in the driver's hatch of his Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cobb, who is wearing goggles, a cap, and a boilersuit, or coveralls, with the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo on the left breast, looks off into the distance while another man speaks into a microphone being held in front of him. A crowd watches in the background.
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
1 negative. 4 x 5 in (10 x 12 cm)
Identifier
photCL Whitt 2760
318381
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/4011
Subject
Cobb, John Rhodes, 1899-1952
Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
Automobile racing--Utah
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place
Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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