Mary Wiggins, wearing parachute pack and smiling as she climbs onto plane, Los Angeles, 1931

Item Overview
- Title
- Mary Wiggins, wearing parachute pack and smiling as she climbs onto plane, Los Angeles, 1931
- Date Created
- circa August 17, 1931
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
- Photo appears with article "Thirteenth Parachute Jamp Made: AVIATRICES RACE AND LEAP Florence Barnes Wins Major Contest in Day of Thrills as Curtain-Raiser for Derby Take-Off," Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug 1931: A1.
- Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: Jinx Successfully Defied by Girl. Mary Wiggins climbing aboard airplane that took her aloft to make her thirteenth parachute jump
Text from negative sleeve: Wiggins, Mary. Parachutist.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Subjects
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Transportation
People
Women stunt performers--California--Los Angeles
Parachutists--California--Los Angeles County
Parachuting--California--Los Angeles County - Names
- Wiggins, Mary, 1909-1945
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.0160996030334
- Latitude
- -118.452723026275
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclalat_1429_b3737_G5543
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002pqv6
- Manifest url
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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
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .