| Maker(s): | Lyon, Danny
| | Culture: | American (1942 - )
| | Title: | Seventeenth Annual World’s Largest Motorcycle Blessing, St. Christopher Shrine, Midlothian, Illinois
| | Date Made: | 1965 negative; 2008 print
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | gelatin silver print
| | Place Made: | United States; Illinois; Midlothian; St. Christopher Shrine
| | Measurements: | sheet: 11 in x 14 in; 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm; image: 8 7/8 in x 13 in; 22.5 cm x 33 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signature in graphite on verso: Danny Lyon, DLB 24, printer's stamp in maroon ink: circle with Printer BLEAK BEAUTY Picture Date 65 Print Date 08
| | Accession Number: | SC 2013.82.79
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Nicole Moretti Ungar, class of 1982, and Jon Ungar
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
outdoors, street, crowds of men and women on motorcycles holding cards reading along with the clergry man dressed in cerimonial robe hand raised in blessing as crowds line the street to watch, American flags in the background, Seventeenth Annual World’s Largest Motorcycle Blessing, St. Christopher Shrine, Midlothian, Illinois; suburbia; children; adults; vehicles; transportation
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