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| Title | Will Rogers playing polo, Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, August 6, 1935 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1935 |
| Caption | 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. |
| Notes | 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. |
| Subjects | 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 |
| Personal Names | Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Lake City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.40695 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | 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. |
