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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Several men and women stand in front of the side of an airplane. At center, from left to right, Anthony Fokker and James A. Talbot stand in profile, facing one another, as they shake each other's hand. Directly behind them, Violet Fokker is flanked by 2 unidentified men as she looks on. A man and woman stand behind and to the left of the group at center. Harris M. Hanshue and another man stand to the right of the group at center. Harris M. Hanshue looks directly to the camera. Behind the entire group, the aircraft's passenger windows are visible at left and along the side of the plane at right, a graphic reads, "[RIC]HFIEL[D] [G]ASOLIN[E] [...] POWER." Similar photographs are captioned, "Left to right are James Talbot, president of the Richfield Oil; Anthony Fokker, famous designer of the Fokker plane; Mrs Fokker, Harris Hanshue, Western Air Express President, and C. H. Fuller, Richfield vice-president," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jun. 1928: G6, and, "Out From the East Interior of new Fokker, which arrived yesterday, and James A. Talbot, A. H. G. Fokker and Mrs Fokker," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jun. 1928: A11 Possibly related to the articles, “GIANT FOKKER DUE HERE TODAY: Plane Brings Distinguished Visitors,” Los Angeles Times, 01 Jul. 1928: G6, and/or, "THREE FOKKERS BRING NOTABLES: De Luxe Ship Arrives from East With Designer Two Others Carry Bankers to State Convention Plane Builder Forecasts Great Aviation Era," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jun. 1928: A11 Handwritten text from negative sleeve: Fokker, A. H. G. + Mrs. Typescript from negative: Anthony Fokker shakes hands with James A. Talbot while Mrs Fokker (center) looks on.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4660 ark:/21198/zz002ctj9s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Business people--Dutch--California--Montebello Meetings--California--Montebello Business people--American--California--Montebello Aircraft--American--California--Montebello Shaking hands--California--Montebello Hanshue, Harris Mathewson, 1881-1937 Fokker, Violet Austman, 1900-1929 Fokker, Anthony H. G. (Anthony Herman Gerard), 1890-1939 Talbot, James Arnold, 1879-1936
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