Western Air Express biplane on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Western Air Express biplane on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927
- Date Created
- [between February 26, 1927-March 6th, 1927]
- Date
- 1927-02-26/1927-03-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- View of a biplane parked in an exhibition hall. A sign above the plane a sign reads "Western Air Express." Two signs on the plane read: "Souvenir California Booster Letter, Ready for Air Mail East - 10 ยข" (lower left wing) , and "Airplane Trips 2 Free" (on the engine). Reported in "Fourteenth Annual Automobile Show Closes Tomorrow After Record Attendance: Air Mail Campaign Success is Recognized," Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 1927: 6.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- 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
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3692_G228
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1x69drk
- 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