COLLECTION NAME:
Underwood & Underwood World War I press photographs
Record
Identifier:
C0502_B001_F0723.jpg
Title:
Actor Douglas Fairbanks performing stunts at the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Date:
1918-02-20
Description:
Attached: "236975 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FAIRBANKS BUCKS THE GRAND CANYON. Douglas Fairbanks, the world's champion daredevil motion picture actor, climbing a rope up a perpendicular wall of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Fairbanks performed a great variety of stunts at the Canyon, taking great risks in most of them. The performance was an outdoor benefit for the American Red Cross. A crowd of people watched Fairbanks, and his stunts were all real, not faky [sic] tricks for purely pictorial purposes. 2/20/18."
Subject:
World War, 1914 - 1918
Subject:
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
Geographic Area:
United States
Decade:
1910s
Type:
Still Image
Genre/Form:
documentary photography
Genre/Form:
black-and-white photographs
Genre/Form:
portraits
Format:
Photograph; black and white
Extent:
8 x 10 in.
Digital Publisher:
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center.
Collection:
Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs
Physical Location:
Box 1, Folder 72
Rights Statement:
Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.
General Note:
The description for these photographs is transcribed from paper descriptions that are attached to the photographs with adhesive. These paper descriptions are brittle and acidic. For presentation and accessibility purposes, the descriptions have been cropped out of the image.
