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Robert Wilson and Dr. F.A. Fender with Dr. Light's seaplane, San Pedro, 1935

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Title: Robert Wilson and Dr. F.A. Fender with Dr. Light's seaplane, San Pedro, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935
1935-01
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.
Dr. Fender and Robert stand on a rudder of the plane.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Flying Doctor and Chum Arrive on World Tour," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: WILSON, ROBERT PILOT Early Aviation
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4515
ark:/21198/zz002cqb2x
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Harbors--California--San Pedro
Physicians--American--California--San Pedro
Tourists--California--San Pedro
Air travel
Seaplanes--American--California--San Pedro
Fender, F.A., (Dr.)
Wilson, Robert
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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