Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935
An avid polo player, humorist Will Rogers is shown here playing his last game at the Olympic Riding and Driving Club on August 6, 1935. The following day Will departed Renton with aviation pioneer Wiley Post in a modified Lockheed Orion. Their trip to explore a route to Siberia was cut short when th...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/1730 2023-05-15T15:39:43+02:00 Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Lake City (Seattle, Wash.) Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/1730 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1986.5.40695 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/1730 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection Celebrities--Washington (State)--Seattle Entertainers--Washington (State)--Seattle Polo--Washington (State)--Seattle Horseback riding--Washington (State)--Seattle Sports--Washington (State)--Seattle Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle Athletic fields--Washington (State)--Seattle Rogers Will 1879-1935 photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:54:03Z An avid polo player, humorist Will Rogers is shown here playing his last game at the Olympic Riding and Driving Club on August 6, 1935. The following day Will departed Renton with aviation pioneer Wiley Post in a modified Lockheed Orion. Their trip to explore a route to Siberia was cut short when their plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska killing both men. In 1938 the Olympic Riding and Driving Club erected a monument on the site of his last polo game. The monument was eventually moved to the Lake City Library. Handwritten on sleeve: Will Rogers; polo. Caption information source: P-I research files. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 8, 1936. 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. Other/Unknown Material Barrow Point Barrow Alaska Siberia University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Orion ENVELOPE(-59.800,-59.800,-62.438,-62.438) Polo ENVELOPE(28.967,28.967,65.600,65.600) The Monument ENVELOPE(162.250,162.250,-72.583,-72.583) |
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Celebrities--Washington (State)--Seattle Entertainers--Washington (State)--Seattle Polo--Washington (State)--Seattle Horseback riding--Washington (State)--Seattle Sports--Washington (State)--Seattle Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle Athletic fields--Washington (State)--Seattle Rogers Will 1879-1935 |
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Celebrities--Washington (State)--Seattle Entertainers--Washington (State)--Seattle Polo--Washington (State)--Seattle Horseback riding--Washington (State)--Seattle Sports--Washington (State)--Seattle Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle Athletic fields--Washington (State)--Seattle Rogers Will 1879-1935 Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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Celebrities--Washington (State)--Seattle Entertainers--Washington (State)--Seattle Polo--Washington (State)--Seattle Horseback riding--Washington (State)--Seattle Sports--Washington (State)--Seattle Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle Athletic fields--Washington (State)--Seattle Rogers Will 1879-1935 |
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An avid polo player, humorist Will Rogers is shown here playing his last game at the Olympic Riding and Driving Club on August 6, 1935. The following day Will departed Renton with aviation pioneer Wiley Post in a modified Lockheed Orion. Their trip to explore a route to Siberia was cut short when their plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska killing both men. In 1938 the Olympic Riding and Driving Club erected a monument on the site of his last polo game. The monument was eventually moved to the Lake City Library. Handwritten on sleeve: Will Rogers; polo. Caption information source: P-I research files. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 8, 1936. 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
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Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
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will rogers playing polo, olympic riding and driving club, seattle, august 6, 1935 |
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United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Lake City (Seattle, Wash.) |
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ENVELOPE(-59.800,-59.800,-62.438,-62.438) ENVELOPE(28.967,28.967,65.600,65.600) ENVELOPE(162.250,162.250,-72.583,-72.583) |
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Orion Polo The Monument |
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Orion Polo The Monument |
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Barrow Point Barrow Alaska Siberia |
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Barrow Point Barrow Alaska Siberia |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
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Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1986.5.40695 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/1730 |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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