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Title: Airplane crash of Calbraith Rodgers
Date Created and/or Issued: 4/3/1912
Contributing Institution: Long Beach Public Library
Collection: Long Beach Photos
Rights Information: For information about copyright and ordering images from the LBPL Digital Archive, see https://www.longbeach.gov/library/research/long-beach-history-and-special-collections/.
Description: The photograph shows two men and a boy in swimsuits standing in the surf beside the wreckage of a plane, with Pine Avenue Pier in the background. It is probably the wreck of American aviation pioneer Cal Rodgers' plane on 04-03-1912. DATE NOTES: date noted on back of image. ORIG. IMAGE: 3.5" x 1.5" B&W matte print. Hole in the top middle of picture. NEGATIVE: No. KEYWORDS: Accident, planes, death, fatality, fatal, air pilots, flight.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: LBPL_0039.tiff
http://lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17164coll3/id/5297
Subject: Airplanes. Aircraft accidents--California--History. Rodgers, Calbraith Aeronautics--California, Southern
Relation: Airplane Crashes

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