Image / Pete Kreis driving race car number 15 on a race track, 1925-1934

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Title: Pete Kreis driving race car number 15 on a race track, 1925-1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1925-1934]
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Pete Kreis (Albert Jacob Peter Kreis) was a race car driver from Knoxville, (Tenn.), active from 1925 to 1934, when he crashed and died at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during a practice run for the Indy 500.
Handwritten on negative: Pete Kreis.
Text from negative sleeve: Kreis Pete. Race Driver.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5398
ark:/21198/zz002cvdr1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobile racing drivers
Kreis, Pete, 1900-1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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