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Photograph caption dated August 20, 1954 reads "Roy Knabenshue, who piloted first flight of a lighter-than-air blimp back in 1904 at St. Louis Fair, re-enacts flight in Goodyear balloon on 50th anniversary. Blimp is pictured through Portal of Folded Wings at Valhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, and commemorated honored dead of American Aviation by dropping wreaths, placed in Portal by Knabenshue's wife and two other pioneer women fliers."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Airships--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Cemeteries--Monuments--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Monuments & memorials--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Spanish influences Fences--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Trees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Flags--United States Flagpoles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Wreaths--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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