Policeman Charles L. Nelson inspects the wreckage of a plane crash, Los Angeles, 1945
Item Overview
- Title
- Policeman Charles L. Nelson inspects the wreckage of a plane crash, Los Angeles, 1945
- Date Created
- November 25, 1945
- Date
- 1945-11-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Policeman Charles L. Nelson inspects the wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Aviation - Accidents - Russell Holt
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Nelson, Charles L.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Police--California--Los Angeles
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280dx5
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .