Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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." A photograph of a grinning Stannage with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Handwritten on negative: 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 Text from newspaper caption: The author, famed radio man aboard the Southern Cross in its flight from London to Oakland.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11597 ark:/21198/zz002h9p1h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Aeronautics--California--Los Angeles Portrait photographs Stannage, John Stanley Warburton, 1905-1970
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