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Title
Wheel-chair basketball player Jack Heller being hoisted aboard Los Angeles Air Service plane, 1948
Date Created and/or Issued
February 19, 1948
1948-02-19
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 Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
ALL ABOARD! -- Jack Heller, member of the wheel-chair basketball team from Birmingham General Hospital, is hoisted aboard Los Angeles Air Service plane at Burbank as teammates wait turn. The team left yesterday for 12-day eastern exhibition tour.
Type
image
Format
b&w negative
Identifier
uclalat_1429_b33_50227
ark:/21198/zz0002vjs0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Passenger lifts for people with disabilities
People with disabilities--Travel--California
People
Sports
Airlines--Employees
Wheelchair basketball--United States
Los Angeles Air Service
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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