2009.1.535

Untitled
7.25 in HIGH x 5 in WIDE
(18.41 cm HIGH x 12.70 cm WIDE)
The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers
2009.1.535


Typed on front, "Hunter S. Thompson Author of The Curse Of Lono, copiously illustrated by Ralph Steadman, a Bantam trade paperback original to be published on November 1." Handwritten on the top of the image: "Dear Ralph, We Killed like champions. Lono". Image depicts Thompson wearing a lei and standing in front of a boat with the name " Humdinger", a 308-pound marlin dangling from a chain next to him. From the Oakland Tribune Collection

Used: Oakland Tribune

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