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Pilot Paul E. Richter Jr. handing over first piece of freight delivered by air from Europe, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Pilot Paul E. Richter Jr. handing over first piece of freight delivered by air from Europe, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: October 25, 1928
1928-10-25
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: Pilot Paul E. Richter Jr. handing over first piece of freight delivered by air from Europe. This photograph appears with article "AERIAL FREIGHTING ACHIEVED: Germany's First Consignment Here," Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 1928: A22.
Text from newspaper caption: Germany's First Consignment Here Men and Metal Left to right-Paul E. Richter, pilot who brought shipment from San Francisco; W. F. Fox and W. [Warren] T. Winstrom, local Electrolux officials (Inset)- Air purifier made in Germany and brought across the Atlantic by plane. [Inset was drawing of purifier]
Text from negative sleeve: Richter, Paul E. Jr. Pilot.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3726_G4199
ark:/21198/zz0002pnh2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air mail service--California--Los Angeles
|Aeronautics, Commercial--Freight
Fox, W. F
Winstrom, Warren T., 1903-1959
Richter, Paul E., 1896-1949
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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