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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated April 7, 1962 reads, "Pilot Bob Dye (left), Woodland Hills, helps Mrs. Hy Lenswick, president of Musicians Wives Inc., load supplies aboard airlift plane Friday at Van Nuys Airport. Assisting in foreground are co-pilot Red Janisse, Van Nuys, and Melvina McCloud, representative from the Ramah, N. M., Indian Reservation, where 300 Navajo residents have been homeless and destitute since fire struck two weeks ago. More than 750 pounds of food, clothing and medical supplies collected by the wives were aboard when the plane took off."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Musicians' Wives, Inc Musicians' Wives, Inc.--Presidents Van Nuys Airport Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Los Angeles Air pilots--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Disaster relief--California--Los Angeles Airplanes--California--Los Angeles Airports--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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