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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Captain Walter Wanderwell sets out to break his world record for touring. He is preparing to leave Los Angeles for a schooner trip to South Sea Isles and journey through the eleven countries not already crossed by his organization. A crowd watches from the sidewalk. Captain Wanderwell holds the flag sticking out of the vehicle with one hand and salutes with his other arm. Dorothy Dawn stands on the other side of the vehicle making the same salute. Photograph appears with the article, "Wanderwells Plan South Seas Trip," Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug 1932: A2. Text from newspaper caption: Schooner Voyage Next on Program Capt. Walter Wanderwell and Dorothy Dawn with car No. 4 of fleet that has taken party through many lands. Handwritten on negative: Walter Wanderwell, Dorothy Dawn Text from negative sleeve: WANDERWELL, WALTER MURDER CASE 1933
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4455 ark:/21198/zz002cq80x
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Saluting--California--Los Angeles Automobile travel--California Crowds--California--Los Angeles Dawn, Dorothy Wanderwell, Walter, b. 1896 or 98-1932 Wanderwell, Aloha, b. 1907
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