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Title: John S. W. Stannage talks about flying, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1935
1935-01
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Why Kingsford-Smith Came Back," Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan 1935: J3.
Radio operator Stannage proposes the answer to the question why do men make long-distance flights as the desire for money, publicity, and "sometimes because they have to."
John Stannage looks into the camera standing with his hands in his pants pockets.
Handwritten on negative: John S.W. Stannage
Text from negative sleeve: STANNAGE, JOHN S.W. PILOT, 1935 South African/Australian radio operator worked w/Charles Kingford Smith in Australia
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11596
ark:/21198/zz002h9p00
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Aeronautics--California--Los Angeles
Stannage, John Stanley Warburton, 1905-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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