Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of a banquet for famous aviators attended by, left to right: unidentified man in uniform, William G. McAdoo (California senator), Walter J. Braunschweiger (banker), Patrick Gordon Taylor (Australian aviator), Charles Kingsford Smith (Australian aviator), P. G. B. "Bud" Morriss (American aviator), and Frank Shaw (Los Angeles mayor). The banquet table is decorated with a leafy swag and mound of flowers. The national flags of Australia (left) and the United States (right) frame the guests. Australian pilot Charles Kingsford Smith arrived in Los Angeles, with his navigator, Patrick Gordon Taylor on November 5, ending a journey from Brisbane. Taylor left Los Angeles on the night of the 6th. In a photograph in the Los Angeles Times, Taylor is seen wearing the same suit and necktie (5 Nov. 1934: 1). The banquet probably took place on the 5th. Handwritten on negative: Wm. G. McAdoo, Walter J. Braunschweiger, P. G. Taylor, Chas. Kingsford-Smith, P. G. B. Morris, Frank Shaw. Text from negative sleeve: McAdoo, William Gibbs
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10643 ark:/21198/zz002hbnhq
Subject
Air pilots--Australian--California--Los Angeles Banquets--California--Los Angeles Air pilots--British--California--Los Angeles Taylor, P. G. (Patrick Gordon), 1896-1966 Kingsford-Smith, Charles Edward, Sir, 1897-1935 Braunschweiger, Walter J., 1894-1974 Morriss, P. G. B. (Percy George Brockhurst), 1885-1944 McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941 Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
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