Image / Dorothy Skaer with her dog, Duke, reading a map, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Dorothy Skaer with her dog, Duke, reading a map, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa September 6, 1935]
1935-09-06
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.
On July 30th Lieutenant Arthur H. Skaer Jr. went missing when he was testing a Northup monoplane. LAPD have concluded their three-week search into the flyer's disappearance. An award of $1500 for information regarding the disappearance of Skaer and the plane is being offered by Northup Corporation.
Photograph appears with the article, "Lost Flyer Hunt Shifts," Los Angeles Times, 07 Sep 1935: 16.
Skaer sits at a table pointing at a map with a pen while Duke the dog sits in her lap.
Text from newspaper caption: Exclusive photo of Mrs. Dorothy Skaer, wife of Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer, who disappeared on a test flight July 30 and was supposed to have fallen in sea. Mrs. Skaers, however, is inclined to believe he crashed in the Malibu Mountains. She is seen studying a map of that area.
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Skaer "Duke" -5m 9/14/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2048 - Dorothy Skaer studying map of Malibu Mtns. area. with dog, "Duke" wife of Last Northup Aviator -> Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer, Jr. 9/14/35 [stamped:] Sep 19 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8414
ark:/21198/zz002dg90p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Maps
Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Dogs--California--Los Angeles
Skaer, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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