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Title: Vega seaplane
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Workers, in uniforms with "Thunderbird" written on the back, prepare a Lockheed seaplane for Capt. Hubert Wilkins at the Los Angeles Harbor. Earlier in 1928 Hubert Wilkins and his pilot, Carl Ben Eiselson, flew a Lockheed Vega on the first trans-Arctic flight from Point Barrow, Alaska to Spitsbergen. Photo dated: September 7, 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069738
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073590
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110120
Subject: Lockheed aircraft
Airplanes--California--Los Angeles
Seaplanes--California--Los Angeles
Wilkins, George H.(George Hubert),Sir,1888-1958
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

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