Vincent P. Taylor [in inflatable rubber suit] floating on San Francisco Bay, Sept. 29th, 1926 / Taylor Family photographs
Vincent P. Taylor was an early Australian aviator, balloonist and stuntman who went to the United States in 1920. After collapsing jobless, hungry and ill at a police station in Jacksonville in 1930, Florida, he died a few days later in a charity ward at the county hospital
For a very detailed biography of "Captain" Taylor, see: Kiama Local History site. kiamalocalhistory.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/the-australian...
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Vincent P. Taylor [in inflatable rubber suit] floating on San Francisco Bay, Sept. 29th, 1926 / Taylor Family photographs
Vincent P. Taylor was an early Australian aviator, balloonist and stuntman who went to the United States in 1920. After collapsing jobless, hungry and ill at a police station in Jacksonville in 1930, Florida, he died a few days later in a charity ward at the county hospital
For a very detailed biography of "Captain" Taylor, see: Kiama Local History site. kiamalocalhistory.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/the-australian...
Format: Photograph
Find more detailed information about this photograph: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=8072
From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au