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August 13, 2013

Vincent P. Taylor Floating on San Francisco Bay, 1926

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.

Vincent P. Taylor [in inflatable rubber suit] floating on San Francisco Bay, September 29, 1926. (Image: Taylor Family photographs, via State Library of New South Wales)

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