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Title: Professional walker Dan O'Leary passes at 91, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: May 30, 1933
1933-05-30
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Dan O'Leary's Journeys End," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1933: A12.
Mr. O'Leary stands in front of a brick wall, his eyes sallow as he stares directly into the camera.
A month shy of his 92nd birthday, Irishman and professional walker Dan O'Leary died of a heart attack. Mr. O'Leary's greatest accomplishments were walking a mile at the beginning of each hour for 1000 consecutive hours at age 66 and walking to every State capital in the country starting at age 80 over a period of ten years.
Text from newspaper caption: Dan O'Leary
Handwritten on negative: Dan O Leary p+q
Text from negative sleeve: O'LEARY, DAN WALKER, 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6902
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Older people--California--Los Angeles
O'Leary, Dan, 1841-1933
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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