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Title: Motor boats on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: [between February 26, 1927-March 6th, 1927]
1927-02-26/1927-03-07
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
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
Description: View of mwo motorboats and one boat engine on display in an exhibition hall at an auto show. A sign hung up near the ceiling indicates these two boats are property of Fred Thomson Productions. The actor and stuntman Fred Thomson was an avid boatsman and boat collector. Reported in "Southland's Greatest Auto Exhibit in History Mecca for Unprecedented Throngs: Show Setting New Records; Indications Point to Eclipse of Attendance Estimates; Crowds Marvel at Color and Beauty of Display; Planes and Motorboats Also Get Share of Attention," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1927: 9.
Handwritten on negative: Motor boat exhibit at Auto show
Text from negative sleeve: Auto Show. 1927
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G227
ark:/21198/z11z9x5p
Language: English
Subject: Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Boat engines
Motorboats--American--California--Los Angeles
Thomson, Frederick Clifton, 1890-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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