Dorothy Skaer with her dog, Duke, reading a map, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Dorothy Skaer with her dog, Duke, reading a map, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa September 6, 1935]

Date

1935-09-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

On July 30th Lieutenant Arthur H. Skaer Jr. went missing when he was testing a Northup monoplane. LAPD have concluded their three-week search into the flyer's disappearance. An award of $1500 for information regarding the disappearance of Skaer and the plane is being offered by Northup Corporation.
Photograph appears with the article, "Lost Flyer Hunt Shifts," Los Angeles Times, 07 Sep 1935: 16.
Skaer sits at a table pointing at a map with a pen while Duke the dog sits in her lap.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Exclusive photo of Mrs. Dorothy Skaer, wife of Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer, who disappeared on a test flight July 30 and was supposed to have fallen in sea. Mrs. Skaers, however, is inclined to believe he crashed in the Malibu Mountains. She is seen studying a map of that area.
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Skaer "Duke" -5m 9/14/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2048 - Dorothy Skaer studying map of Malibu Mtns. area. with dog, "Duke" wife of Last Northup Aviator -> Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer, Jr. 9/14/35 [stamped:] Sep 19 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Skaer, Dorothy

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Maps
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Dogs--California--Los Angeles