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. Similar photograph appears with the article, "First Pullman Plane Arrives," Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr 1934: 18. The Curtiss Wright Condor is a small black aircraft close to the ground. Lyles stands to one side of the plane's steps and Smith and Damon stand on the other side. Grace Richardson stands at the top of the steps, halfway out of the plane. The Curtiss-Wright Condor completed the first scheduled trip taken by a sleeper plane over a commercial air route; the passengers included Julian K. Lyles, southern division manager of American Airways, Grace Richardson, chief stewardess, Hugh L. Smith, operations manager, southern division, and Ralph S. Damon, president of the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, who was the builder and designer of the plane. Text from negative sleeve: LYLES, JULIAN K. AMER. AIR LINES X
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6146 ark:/21198/zz002cw9jx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People associated with transportation Airplanes--American--California--Glendale Lyles, Julian Knox, 1904-1966 Grand Central Air Terminal (Glendale, Calif.) Richardson, Grace American Airlines Curtiss-Wright Corporation Damon, Ralph S. (Ralph Shepard), 1897-1956 Smith, Hugh L
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