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Plane crashes in front yard on Van Ness and Slauson, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Plane crashes in front yard on Van Ness and Slauson, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 3, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dates on negative sleeve do not correspond with newspaper caption, which dates the event to August 3, 1935.
Spectators gather to watch the wreckage of a downed plane at 5715 Van Ness Avenue. Firemen and police administered first aid to the three injured occupants before sending them to hospital. The plane landed on the front lawn of a residential home in a densely populated neighborhood.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Trio Injured in Crash,” Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug 1935: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Airplane Crash – Van Ness and Slauson
Text from negative sleeve: 1431 – 8-9-35 Airplane Crash Van Ness and Slauson 3 Victims 8/5/35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7959
ark:/21198/zz002dfr95
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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