Image / Strongman pulling people and car with his teeth, Santa Monica

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Title: Strongman pulling people and car with his teeth, Santa Monica
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a strongman dressed in a leopard skin bodysuit pulling people in bathing suits and an automobile with a chain by his teeth in Santa Monica, California. One of the men sitting on the car has letters on his swim suit that read "GB" or "CB." There appears to be a construction area with cranes and cables fenced off to the left with a sign that partially reads "es of thrills."
Title devised by cataloger. Date based on year on license plate visible in image.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.7 x 12.1 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487806
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17440
Subject: Weight lifters
Muscle strength
Automobiles
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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