Image / High schooler James Wheeler with explorer Paxson C. Hayes, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: High schooler James Wheeler with explorer Paxson C. Hayes, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1935
1935-07
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.
Hayes draws on a map with a pencil while Wheeler leans over the man's shoulder.
Photograph appears with the article, "Youth to Aid Explorer in Yaqui Country Trip," Los Angeles Times, 15 July 1935: A5.
For three months Perris High School student James Wheeler will be accompanying explorer, ethnologist and archaeologist Paxson C. Hayes to Mexico in search of a lost city and living as guests of the Yaqui Indians.
Text from negative sleeve: 1296 - James Wheeler. Paxson C. Hayes Xplorers - [stamped:] Aug 1- 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Paxson C. Hayes, explorer, seated before a map showing James Wheeler the itinerary of their proposed rambles into the Yaqui Indian country of Mexico.
Handwritten on negative: James Wheeler Paxson C Hayes
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7715
ark:/21198/zz002dffwm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Maps
Teenagers
Explorers--American--California--Los Angeles
Hayes, Paxson C., b. 1892 or 93
Wheeler, James, b. 1918 or 19
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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