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Title: Inventor and engineer Guy Ball, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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.
A similar photograph appears with the article “Airliner to Be Lowered by Giant ‘Chute in Test, Col. Turner Discloses His Plans to Drop From 5000-Foot Altitude With Dead Motor.” Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1935, with caption: Safety Venture Disclosed. Guy Ball, parachute expert, and Col. Roscoe Turner examine giant chute being prepared for test in lowering commercial passenger plane weighing 4500 pounds.
Guy Ball, in shirt with rolled sleeves and tie, leaning on table
Handwritten at edge of negative: Guy Ball
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Ball, Guy, Parachute expert, 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0967
0967
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Engineers
Ball, Guy, 1890-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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