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Title: Amphibian plane "Dolphin"
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: Douglas Aircraft Co.'s new amphibian plane "Dolphin", developed as a less luxurious version of the "Sinbad" in 1931, above Clover Field (Santa Monica Airport). The first two Dolphins were purchased by Wilmington-Catalina Airlines to transport passengers between Los Angeles and Catalina, becoming the first Douglas airliners. Subsequent examples were used by the US Navy and US Coast Guard for transports and search and rescue missions. Photo dated: December 19, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069729
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073578
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110087
Subject: Santa Monica Municipal Airport
Douglas airplanes
Amphibian planes--California--Santa Monica
Airplanes--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Douglas Aircraft Company
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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