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Title: Spider Matlock, race driver, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 6, 1935
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.
William E. "Spider" Matlock, race driver and mechanic, sits for a portrait.
This photograph appears with the article, "Spider Matlock Plays Tag with Grim Reaper. Devil-May-Care Racing "Fiend" Had Many Narrow Escapes in Colorful Career," Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 1935: 24.
Text from negative sleeve: 1460- Aug. 8, 1935, Spider Matlock (race driver), 8-6-35.
Handwritten on negative: Spider Matlock 8-6-35.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8001
ark:/21198/zz002dfsrc
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobile racing drivers
Matlock, Spider, 1903-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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