Mail-plane pilot Jimmy Carson of Western Air Express, Los Angeles, 1920s

Item Overview

Title

Mail-plane pilot Jimmy Carson of Western Air Express, Los Angeles, 1920s

Date Created

[between 1920-1930]

Date

1920/1930

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Mail-plane pilot Jimmy Carson aboard the Western Air Express airplane. Assistant postmaster J. F. Bourne and an unidentified man are standing on the side of the plane, and the man on the right is handing Jimmy some papers.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Chas A Cooke / Pilot Jimmy Carson / asst Postmaster Bourne
Text from negative sleeve: Carson, Jimmy. Pilot.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Carson, James W., 1893-1979
Bourne, J. F.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Postmasters--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California
Air mail service--California--Los Angeles