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Title: Ellsworth's Polar Star
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
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: John K. Northrop (left) and three men (identified as pilot Bernt Balchen, explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and Jay (?)) discuss plans for Ellsworth's expedition to Antarctica. They are standing next to the "Polar Star", one of two Northrop Gammas that were the first aircraft produced in 1933 by the newly established Northrop Corporation. In April 1936, Lincoln Ellsworth donated the Polar Star to the Smithsonian. Photo dated: October 18, 1932.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069710
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073559
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110035
Subject: Balchen, Bernt,--1899-1973
Ellsworth, Lincoln,--1880-1951
Northrop, John Knudsen,--1895-1981
Northrop aircraft
Aircraft industry--California--Inglewood
Airplanes--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Northrop Corporation
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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