Armless pilot Josephine Callaghan standing in front biplane at Dycer airport, Los Angeles, 1929

Title: Armless pilot Josephine Callaghan standing in front biplane at Dycer airport, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created: April 16, 1929
Date: 1929-04-16
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Armless pilot Josephine Callaghan standing in front bi-plane at Dycer airport. On her plane is a painted sign reading "Dycer Airport Los Angeles Calif." Photo appears with the article, "Fall Kills Armless Pilot: Josephine Callaghan, Flying to Washington to Plead for License, Plunges in Texas," Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1929: A3.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Miss Josephine Callaghan
Text from negative sleeve: Callaghan, Josephine. Armless sportswoman. Dead.

Genre: glass plate negatives
news photographs
Names: Dycer Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Callaghan, Josephine Mary, 1889-1929
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Biplanes--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3698_G924
ARK: ark:/21198/z1nh0hhw
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