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Eddie Schneider lands in Mines Field after endurance flight, Los Angeles, ca. 1930

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Title: Eddie Schneider lands in Mines Field after endurance flight, Los Angeles, ca. 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa August, 1930]
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.
A crowd is gathered around Schneider's monoplane after he lands at Mines Field.
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.
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: Monoplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schneider, Eddie, 1911-1940
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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