Western Air Express biplane on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927

Title: Western Air Express biplane on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created: [between February 26, 1927-March 6th, 1927]
Date: 1927-02-26/1927-03-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of a biplane in an exhibition hall. Tassels and fringe hang from the ceiling. To the upper left of the plane hangs a sign reading "Western Air Express." There are two signs on the plane itself: one on the lower left wing, reading "Souvenir California Booster Letter, Ready for Air Mail East - 10 ¢", and another on the engine body reading "Airplane Trips 2 Free." Reported in "Fourteenth Annual Automobile Show Closes Tomorrow After Record Attendance: Air Mail Campaign Success is Recognized," Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 1927: 6.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Air mail exhibit at Auto show
Text from negative sleeve: Auto Show. 1927

Genre: glass plate negatives
news photographs
Names: Western Air Express Corporation
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.031653
Latitude: -118.266607
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Automobile shows--California--Los Angeles
Biplanes--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G226
ARK: ark:/21198/z15n1zj4
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US