Image / Wiley Post with Phillips Petroleum and Lockheed Electra, Los Angeles, circa 1934

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Title: Wiley Post with Phillips Petroleum and Lockheed Electra, Los Angeles, circa 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1934]
1934
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Wiley Post standing in middle wearing eye patch talking to group of six. One man to his left wearing a Lockheed Electra shirt, Lockheed produced many planes in the 1930s. The words "NC 14246" are visible on the tail of the plane.
Wiley Post was the first man to fly solo around the world and died when he crashed his plane in Alaska with Will Rogers.
A cropped version of this photograph appears with the article, "A," Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 1934: 1
Handwritten on negative: Wiley Post
Text from negative sleeve: Post, Wiley [handwritten:] X
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7222
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airplanes--American--California--Burbank
Air pilots--American--California--Burbank
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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