Photograph
Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon
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| Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was made to accompany an article Bacon was writing for the January 1916 issue of Photoplay Magazine. |
| Image ID: | 71713 |
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| Creation Date: | 1915 |
| Creator Name: | White Studio |
| City: | New York City |
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| State: | New York |
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| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | SF AUTOMOBILES W |
| Original Dimensions: | 9.75 x 7.5 inches |
| In February 1917 Bacon would be condemned to death by the British for being a German spy. That sentence was commutted for his testimony against German agents in New York where Bacon pleaded guilty, served one year and a day in prison, and paid a one dollar fine. About this episode, Bacon wrote: "It was nothing but a fantastic stunt designed to produce an exclusive story on espionage, if I had gotten away with it." [Herbert O. Yardly, The American Black Chamber (1931), p. 70.] |
| Actresses |
| Silent films |
| Automobiles |
| Journalists |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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