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[MOTORCYCLES]. [SMITH, Dorothy “Dot”]. Press Photograph of Female Motorcyclist and Stunt Rider “Dot” Smith Astride the Harley Davidson “Knucklehead” Speed Record Motorcycle. [San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 22 1940]. Black-and-white photo of Smith in a bathing suit on the Harley Davidson Model E “Knucklehead” motorcycle, which got the mile speed record at Daytona Beach on March 13, 1937, by Joe Petrali (136.183 MPH). With typed caption and inkstamp on verso. Photo approximately 196 x 252 mm. Upper margin neatly trimmed. From the typed caption on verso: “Harley Davidson Streamlined motorcycle, holder of world straight-away speed record, for non-supercharged motorcycle. 136.183 Miles Per hour. Record established at Daytona Beach, Florida. Now on display at 137 Hayes St., San Francisco. Straddled by Miss Dorothy Smith of San Francisco, Champion Motorcycle Stunt Rider.”