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[Star Riders Motorcycle Club photograph album].
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[Star Riders Motorcycle Club photograph album]Abstract:
Photograph album documenting activities of Star Riders Motorcycle Club, an organization of African American motorcycle enthusiasts
based in Los Angeles, chiefly during the 1950s. Topics include group rides and races; club members posing with their motorcycles;
dances, parties and other leisure events; and informal individual and group portraits. Many images depict club members in
their uniforms. Several women members of the club are depicted throughout the collection. Members of other motorcycle clubs
are also likely depicted. Automobiles are the subject of many images. Album possibly compiled by George Cardwell, an automobile
mechanic who appears in numerous images.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAfrican American motorcyclists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Women motorcyclists -- California -- Photographs
Motorcycle clubs -- California -- Photographs
Motorcycling -- California -- Photographs
African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Automobiles -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Leisure -- California -- Photographs
African American motorcyclists
African Americans
Automobiles
Leisure
Motorcycle clubs
Motorcycling
Women motorcyclists
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- Los Angeles
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Possibly compiled by George Cardwell.
Photographers unknown.
Purchase from Caroliniana ; 2023.
Star Riders Motorcycle Club photograph album, BANC PIC 2023.034, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 350 photographs in 1 album and 3 folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English