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Title: Paul Mantz breaks another record
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph dated November 21, 1947 shows air racing and stunt pilot, Paul Mantz, at Burbank Airport, as he poses next to his P-51 Mustang fighter plane. Mantz had just broken his own intercity record, flying from Oakland to Burbank in 41 minutes and 54 seconds.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114875
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f18_i9
CARL0005307559
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48515
Subject: Mantz, Paul,--1903-1965
Hollywood-Burbank Airport
Air pilots--United States
Stunt performers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Speed records
Fighter planes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Mustang (Fighter plane)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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