Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This photograph was likely taken in August, 1930 when Schneider completed the 4 day flight from New Jersey to Los Angeles, breaking a transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one. A crowd is gathered around Schneider's monoplane after he lands at Mines Field. Handwritten on negative: Eddie Schneider landing at Mines Field Text from negative sleeve: Schneider, Eddie Pilot [handwritten:] Early aviator plane
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11566 ark:/21198/zz002h9mzh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles Monoplanes--American--California--Los Angeles Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schneider, Eddie, 1911-1940
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