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Title: Pilots & airtankers of brushfire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
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: Pilot Carl Dolbeare just before he takes off for fire from Lancaster's Fox Field. Photograph caption dated July 16, 1989 reads, "I guess it's one of the most hazardous occupations you can choose in civilian aviation. I've come back with hunks of charcoal and burnt wood larger than a man's thumb inside my engine covering."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082186
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b012_f2_i10
CARL0000081686
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25067
Subject: General William J. Fox Airfield (Lancaster, Calif.)
Air pilots--California--Lancaster
Airplanes--California--Lancaster
Airtankers (Forest fire control)--California--Lancaster
Wildfires--California--Lancaster--Prevention and control
Airports--California--Lancaster
Lancaster (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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