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Title: Air pioneer compares old, new engines
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Caption dated June 1, 1954 reads, "Roy Knabenshue, second from left, compares modern engine, shown above, with Curtiss Motorcycle engine which powered his first successful flight in engine-powered dirigible in 1904. Scene is Engine Operation and Maintenance Forum at Pacific Airmotive Corp. Burbank plant. With him are, left to right, W.D. Doolittle, Mrs. Knabenshue and Roy Backman."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00113051
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d012_f38_i21
CARL0005300932
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48079
Subject: Knabenshue, Roy,--1960
Pacific Airmotive Corp. (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Airplanes--Motors
Air pilots--United States
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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