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Dr. Richard Light and Robert Wilson stop in San Pedro as they travel the world, San Pedro, 1935

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Title: Dr. Richard Light and Robert Wilson stop in San Pedro as they travel the world, San Pedro, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Surgical instructor at Yale Medical School Dr. Richard Light is flying around the world on his Bellanca seaplane accompanied by recent Yale graduate Robert Wilson. They have flown to Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, England, Italy, Mesopotamia, India, Siam, the Malay States, the Dutch East Indies, and Manila.
Photograph appears with the article, "Flying Doctor and Chum Arrive on World Tour," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1935: A1.
Dr. Light and Robert stand on the plane, which floats in the middle of the water.
Text from newspaper caption: "Air tourists" plane, now at San Pedro, in which two Yale men have been flying around the world since August 20.
Text from negative sleeve: WILSON, ROBERT PILOT Early Aviation
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4514
ark:/21198/zz002cqb1d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Harbors--California--San Pedro
Air pilots--American--California--San Pedro
Physicians--American--California--San Pedro
Seaplanes--American--California--San Pedro
Air travel
Tourists--California--San Pedro
Wilson, Robert
Light, Richard Upjohn, 1902-1994
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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