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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph is very similar to one that appears with the article, "New Invention Portrays Third Dimension: 'Celestial Sphere' Devised to Instruct Aerial Navigators," Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 1933: A12. Handwritten on negative: L to R Frank S. Trueblood, Dorothy Nichols, La Vonne Dingman Text from negative sleeve: Trueblood, Frank S. Astronomer, 1933. Text from newspaper caption: Engineer Explains Mechanism to Students: Frank S. Trueblood, instructor at Los Angeles Junior College, explaining intricacies of "celestial sphere" to Dorothy Nichols and La Vonne Dingman, students. The central sphere represents the earth and the varicolored spherical wires trace the interplanetary paths of the heavenly bodies.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3970 ark:/21198/zz002cpp8d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Aeronautics--California--Los Angeles Teachers--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles City College Trueblood, Frank Sylvester, 1902-1979 Nichols, Dorothy Dingman, La Vonne
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