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[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC)

the great grandfather of the MOMO racing wheels
these NHS glasses are so in this weather
Fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn...
Should have gone to specsavers!
White knuckle ride
[Bob Burman, race car driver] (LOC) by The Library of Congress.
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Bob Burman, race car driver]

[between 1910 and 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Current title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the source: Flickr Commons Project, 2008.
Title on negative: "Burman."
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Automobile racing

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09237

Call Number: LC-B2- 2202-4 
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teschmidt72 says:

Bob Burman professional race driver 1909 era
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stevegarfield  Pro User  says:

This is great! Reminds me of Alec Baldwin.

Bob Burman and Alec Baldwin

flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/2199030247/
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menlo  Pro User  says:

What, no protective leather helmet?
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markva2  Pro User  says:

More Tobey McGuire than Alec Baldwin.
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sorrenta says:

ahaa.. i love this =)
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BizarreRecords says:

Blogged on Interesting Flickr Sets!
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lobbiaz  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Art & Sport, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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thatjonesboy  Pro User  says:

ouch, looks like those goggles would give you a migrane before the second bend
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ngawangchodron  Pro User  says:

When the famous Barney Oldfield was suspended from racing, Bob Berman took over as Benz' driver.
Described here:
Thereafter Oldfield barnstormed the nation with the Benz, until that fall, when he engineered a match race against the heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson—a fine gimmick but illegal because Johnson was not an accredited race driver. Suspended by the AAA for a year, Oldfield raced in Mexico for a while, then sold the Benz to his manager, Ernie Moross, announced his retirement, and opened a saloon in Los Angeles.

To Oldfield’s considerable chagrin, Moross returned the Benz to the beach at Daytona in April 1911. His driver was Bob Burman, as shy as Oldfield was gregarious, but easily as fearless. There were no challengers to the car this time, but still, a large crowd gathered along the measured mile to watch Burman try for a new record.

“‘Here he comes—there he goes!’ summed up the story of the ride in a nutshell,” reported The Horseless Age after the run. Burman’s speed was 141.732 mph—a full ten miles an hour faster than Oldfield’s. This is not to suggest that Burman was the better driver; Barney had typically held back during his Benz run so he could promote another “go-for-the-record” exhibition. Needless to say, Oldfield was furious and came out of retirement to seek vengeance. But the “fastest speed at which man has ever traveled over the earth’s surface” belonged to Burman for eight years. So phenomenal was 141-plus mph that automobile makers throughout the world were loath to consider building a car to attempt to top it.
“Me and the Benz, here,” said Barney Oldfield, “we’re gonna warm up the sand a little.”

Resumption of the Florida Speed Carnivals would have been anticlimactic after Burman’s run, so it served as the fitting finale. In 1902, when Olds and Winton were clocked at 57 mph on the beach outside the Ormond Hotel, there had been little motor sport elsewhere in America. Now there was lots—road races in Savannah, Georgia; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Santa Monica, California; Elgin, Illinois; and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. The first of the board tracks had opened at Playa del Rey in California. And on a new brick speedway in Indianapolis, on Memorial Day weekend in 1911, promoters held a five-hundred-mile race that they promised would be an annual affair.
From this article about the Dawn of Speed:
www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah /1987/7/1987...
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definetlyoverdone  Pro User  says:

"Bwaaa haaaa haaaa, get out of my way or I will Hypnotize you with my super ray, Hypno-specs!! Mwaa haaa haaa.."
lol

great shot!
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JShine  Pro User  says:



reminds me of the shiz baron!
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Dani Burman says:

i love this...
muiiiito legal
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Jarl van Hoother  Pro User  says:

Why is he wearing Lord Melbury's tweeds?
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hdubwerks says:

this is my great-great-grandpa. no joke. his daughter Lugene (Burman) Larson is my mother's grandmother. she also died in a car accident while racing in Flint, MI.
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The Library of Congress  Pro User  says:

Thanks for providing a first name. We'll add it to the source data and reload the description.
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gravityx9  Pro User  says:

Nice shot!
love those goggles,esp.

I colorized/restored this one
Bob Burman, race car driver
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sakraft1  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Goggles, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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JaneMoth says:

Udo Kier?
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«Gaurav»  Pro User  says:

*Very* dramatic! :-P I like.
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Sh@niqu@ says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called people around world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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MaY¡T@ vAlDeZ¡¡¡ says:

Hello!!! very nice picture!!
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jwcallahan  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Symbols of Our Past, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Zavrumov says:

wow
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Avant-Gardenist  Pro User  says:

shift forward now, into the past, by way of steam'shop
.
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