Photograph of Len Glascow riding a motorbike: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Len Glascow riding a motorbike: Date: ca. 1970. Subject of: Rev. Lenton W. Glascow, American. Photograph by: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A color photograph of stuntman Len Glascow riding a motorbike. He is photographed from the proper left and wears jeans and a leather jacket while sitting on a motorbike with an orange gas tank. He is riding on dusty, sandy terrain with some scrub brushes visible.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1970
- Subject of: Rev. Lenton W. Glascow, American
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Black Stuntmen's Association, founded 1967
- Type: chromogenic color prints
- Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 1/8 in. (20.3 x 25.7 cm)
- Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Automobile racing
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Professional organizations
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2013.73.6
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lenton W. Glascow
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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