Leo J. Muir marries Russell J. Handy and Madeline Bloomquist on an airplane, Santa Ana, 1935

Title: Leo J. Muir marries Russell J. Handy and Madeline Bloomquist on an airplane, Santa Ana, 1935
Date Created: August 6, 1935
Date: 1935-08-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, “First Mormons Take Vows Soaring in Air: Couple Marries in Plane Over Santa Ana,” Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 1935: A1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: While Leo J. Muir, standing, president of the Los Angeles Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, heard their vows, Russell J. Handy, automotive engineer, and Madeline Bloomquist, cafeteria hostess, became husband and wife in the first air wedding involving communicants of the Mormon Church.
Handwritten on negative: LTR: Russell J. Handy, Leo J. Muir, Madeline Bloomquist 8-5-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1457—Russell J. Handy, Madeline Bloomquist, Leo J. Muir, Air Wedding 8-5-35, [Stamped:] AUG 8-1935.

Genre: Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Handy, Russell J., b. 1907
Muir, Leo J. (Leo Joseph), 1880-1967
Bloomquist, Madeline, b. 1906
Location: Santa Ana (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Marriage--California--Los Angeles
Airplanes--American
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7998
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfsnt
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Rights Country: US
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