R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930
Item Overview
- Title
- R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930
- Date Created
- 1929-1930
- Date
- 1930/1929
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Goes Up Seeking Record," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1930: A1.
Miss Seager smiles at Mendell and Reinhart as she offers them a bouquet of flowers. A group of men can be seen behind them examining the Pride of Hollywood.
With the shouts of encouragement of 10,000 people Mendell and Reinhart took to the air in their Albatross monoplane, Pride of Hollywood, in a long-planned attempt to restore to Los Angeles the world's record for sustained flight.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Mendell, Loren W., b. 1898 or 99-1935
Pride of Hollywood
Howard, R. V.
Reinhart, R. B., (Pete Reinhart)
Seager, Gwen, 1913-2000 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Bouquets
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_6543
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cws71
- Manifest url
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 .