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R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930

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Title: R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929-1930
1930/1929
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Goes Up Seeking Record," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1930: A1.
Miss Seager smiles at Mendell and Reinhart as she offers them a bouquet of flowers. A group of men can be seen behind them examining the Pride of Hollywood.
With the shouts of encouragement of 10,000 people Mendell and Reinhart took to the air in their Albatross monoplane, Pride of Hollywood, in a long-planned attempt to restore to Los Angeles the world's record for sustained flight.
Handwritten on negative: R V Howard Gwynn Seager Loren Mendell Pete Reinhart
Text from newspaper caption: Former Record Holders Try to Regain Laurels Left to right, Pete Reinhart, Loren Mendell, Gwynn Seager, who christened plane, and R. V. Howard. Below the plane, Pride of Hollywood, just before the take-off.
Text from negative sleeve: MENDELL, LOREN AVIATOR, 1929
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6543
ark:/21198/zz002cws71
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Bouquets
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Mendell, Loren W., b. 1898 or 99-1935
Pride of Hollywood
Howard, R. V
Reinhart, R. B., (Pete Reinhart)
Seager, Gwen, 1913-2000
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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