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. Photograph published with the article, "Hawks Dash Under Way; Nonstop Plane Over Arizona," Los Angele Times, 5 Feb. 1929: 1 Photograph of pilot Frank Hawks, wearing a full-length fur coat, and mechanic Oscar Grubb, wearing a leather flight suit, standing in front of Hawks' Lockheed Air Express Model plane. Hawks is holding up what appears to be a map. Frank Hawks worked for Lockheed corporation as pilot consultant from 1928 to his death in 1938. Handwritten on negative: L to R Frank Hawks & Harry [sic] Grubb, P & A Photo Text from newspaper caption: Continent Hoppers Ready to Go: Both Set For Hard Test; Capt. Frank Hawks and Oscar Grubb, mechanic, standing by their express model plane just before the take-off. Text from negative sleeve: Hawks, Frank, Capt. 1931
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5180 ark:/21198/zz002cv57w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lockheed Air Express (Transport planes) Mechanics (Persons)--California--Los Angeles Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles Hawks, Frank, 1897-1938 Grubb, Oscar E. (Oscar Edwin), 1890-1975
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