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Description
Views show parade to welcome flyers home up Market to Civic Center. View 1 (2012-1023). Shows parade on Market Street on corner of Battery and Bush. Mechanics Monument (Donahue Memorial Fountain) in background. In car with flyers, Major James Rolph, James D. Phelan and Supervisor Walter Schmidt -- view 2 (2012-1025). Close-up of car -- view 3 (2012-1026). Shows James Warner, Mayor Rolph, James Phelan, Harry Lyon and his mother, Liela. Southern Cross was Fokker trimotor flown by Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm with Americans Harry Lyon and James Warner as navigator and wireless operator. First transpacific flight, they flew from Oakland, California to Sydney, Australia. Returned to San Francisco in July 1928 where met and given welcome by City of San Francisco and Oakland.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographic prints ; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. and 6 x 8 in.
Identifier
(C)001472756CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Warner, James,, 1891-1970--Photographs Lyons, Harry W.--Photographs Rolph, James,, 1869-1934--Photographs Phelan, James D.. (James Duval),, 1861-1930--Photographs Flight crews--California--San Francisco Parades & processions--California--San Francisco Automobiles--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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