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Title: Bill Lear Jr. smokes a pipe
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 August 18, 1947 shows William (Bill) Lear Jr. of North Hollywood, son of inventor and entrepreneur William Powell Lear, founder of the Lear Jet Corporation. Bill Lear Jr. was successful in his own right as a fighter pilot, entrepreneur and business executive.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111792
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d011_f17_i13
CARL0005260337
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/45937
Subject: Lear, William P.,--1928-
Lear, William P.--(William Powell),--1902-1978--Family
Air pilots--California--Los Angeles
Pipe smoking--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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