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Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929

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Title: Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: February 4, 1929
1929-02-04
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.
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.
Photograph related to the article, "Hawks Dash Under Way; Nonstop Plane Over Arizona," Los Angele Times, 5 Feb. 1929: 1
Handwritten on negative: Frank Hawks- Left Harry [sic] Grubb, P & A Photo
Text from negative sleeve: Hawks, Frank, Capt. 1931
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5181
ark:/21198/zz002cv58d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Lockheed Air Express (Transport planes)
Mechanics (Persons)--California--Los Angeles
Hawks, Frank, 1897-1938
Grubb, Oscar E. (Oscar Edwin), 1890-1975
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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