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Title: Northrop Gamma "Polar Star"
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
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: The "Polar Star" is one of two Northrop Gammas that were the first aircraft produced in 1933 by the newly established Northrop Corporation, shown in the background on the right. Lincoln Ellsworth lead an aerial expedition over Antarctica in 1934 with Bernt Balchen as pilot. In April 1936, Lincoln Ellsworth donated the Polar Star to the Smithsonian. Photo dated: October 18, 1932.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069713
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073562
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110033
Subject: Northrop aircraft
Airplanes--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Northrop Corporation
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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