Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of the plane he would fly from the United States to Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1930
Item Overview
- Title
- Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of the plane he would fly from the United States to Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1930
- Date Created
- June 15, 1930
- Date
- 1930-06-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Pilot Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of his plane on which is painted "City of Tokyo / U.S.A. To Japan" and an inscription in Japanese. Azuma flew from Los Angeles to New York. He then had his plane shipped to London, from which he flew to Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Siberia, and then on to Korea and Japan. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Dream Built on Chop Suey: Japanese Restaurant Man Ready to Fly Home as Climax to Years of Planning," Los Angeles Times, 4 Jun. 1930: A2.
- Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Zensaku Azuma
Text from negative sleeve: Azuma, Zensaku. Pilot
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
glass plate negatives
news photographs - Names
- Azuma, Zensaku, 1893-1967
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.944713
- Latitude
- -118.398157
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Air pilots--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3692_G239
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1rg1mvk
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US