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George Mitchell and Joan Lloyd celebrate the leap year by eloping, Phoenix, 1936

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Title: George Mitchell and Joan Lloyd celebrate the leap year by eloping, Phoenix, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February-March 1936
1936-02-03
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell stand in front of the plane while Joan holds a bouquet of white flowers.
Joan Lloyd and George Mitchell of Hollywood eloped by plane for a leap year marriage at the Phoenix sky harbor airport with American Airlines stewardess Jewel Wood and pilot H. P. Russell acting as their witnesses.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Leap Year Inspires Hop," Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar 1936: A5.
Text from negative sleeve: 3543 - George Mitchell (Columbia Studies) Mrs George Mitchell (beautician Joan Lloyd) wedded (see insert) [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12602
ark:/21198/zz002hmn75
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airplanes--American--Arizona--Phoenix
Bouquets
Elopements--Arizona--Phoenix
Mitchell, Joan Lloyd, b. 1915
Mitchell, George, 1910-1963
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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