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Title
Astronaut--Capt. Edward J. Dwight (Contact Sheet 1)
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
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
1963
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Reproduction and use fees will be applied per frame. Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. was born in Kansas City on September 9, 1933, and joined the United States Air Force in 1953 at the age of 20. In 1961, the Kennedy administration selected Captain Dwight Jr. as the first African American astronaut trainee at the Experimental Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base near Lancaster. He was one of fifteen pilots selected for the aerospace school, which provided classroom instruction and flight training in space simulators and high performance jets. He served in the Air Force from 1953 until 1966.
Contact sheet showing thirty four frames taken for a Valley Times newspaper assignment on Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. From this sheet, one image ran in the newspaper on April 1, 1963 (see 00123873)
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00161795
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d027_f32_i16
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/129039
Subject
Dwight, Edward,--Jr.,--1933-
Astronauts--United States
Astronauts' spouses--United States
Men--California--San Fernando Valley
Women--California--San Fernando Valley
Families--California--San Fernando Valley
Children--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Group portraits
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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