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Title: Smith and Bronte crash at Molokai, T.H.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: The Dole Air Race, 1927 [scrapbook], pg. [23b].
Aerial photograph of crash site. "11 P.S. B-3040 (7-15-27)(20-900)." Caption reads - "Ernie Smith (Pilot) and Emory Bronte (Navigator) 1st civilian team to fly US to Hawaii - crashed on Molokai, both survived. Plane was destroyed so Smith and Bronte were unable to return to Oakland for the Dole Race."
2010-3478.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 7 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001479683CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Transpacific flights--Photographs
Aircraft accidents--Hawaii--Molokai
Molokai (Hawaii)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Photograph albums
Place: Hawaii
Molokai
Molokai (Hawaii)

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