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Title: Robert J. Smith, general traffic manager of American Airways, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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) 825-2372
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 9, 1931, ‘Big Shots’ in Selling Quit Pullman for Plane Cabin. … traveling salesmen are deserting the smoking compartment of the Pullman car for chairs in the roaring passenger plane, according to Robert J. Smith, general traffic manager of American Airways, Inc.
Man identified as Robert J. Smith, in monogrammed sweater (S.T.A. or S.A.T.), standing with hands behind back, with blank wall in background
Handwritten at edge of negative: Robert J. Smith
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Smith, Robert J., American Airways, 1931
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2951
2951
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
People
Smith, Robert James, b. 1899
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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