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Title
Eddie Schneider lands in Mines Field after setting speed record, Los Angeles, ca. 1930
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa August, 1930]
1930-08
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.
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.
Schneider poses next to his plane after 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_11568
ark:/21198/zz002h9n11
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
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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