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Crowd around wreckage from George (Tony) Schwamm plane crash, Los Angeles, October 1935

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Title: Crowd around wreckage from George (Tony) Schwamm plane crash, Los Angeles, October 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 13, 1935
1935-10-13
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Wreckage from crash that occurred near Sprott Airport at Telegraph Road and Atlantic Boulevard. Pilot and passenger survived. Man next to plane may be George (Tony) Schwamm, pilot of plane and son of former Fire Commissioner Anthony Schwamm.
Handwritten annotation from negative: Aviation Accident – Local Tom Schwamm Plane, 11945
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Crash of Tony Schwamm's Plane
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00254x7m
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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