Los Angeles Airways helicopter landing on the roof of Los Angeles Post Office Terminal Annex, first helicopter air-mail, 1947
Item Overview
- Title
- Los Angeles Airways helicopter landing on the roof of Los Angeles Post Office Terminal Annex, first helicopter air-mail, 1947
- Date Created
- October 2, 1947
- Date
- 1947-10-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Caption
- NEW MAIL SERVICE -- Los Angeles Airways helicopter shown landing on the roof of Terminal Annex Post Office yesterday to inaugurate helicopter air-mail service, the first of its kind in th United States. Two flights daily are planned on this run with another to start Oct. 16.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 10 x 12.5 cm.
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Names
- Los Angeles Airways, Inc.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.0580904816502
- Latitude
- -118.2353246212
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Air mail service--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Helicopters--Landing--California--Los Angeles
Metropolitan helicopter services--California--Los Angeles
Sikorsky helicopters
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclalat_1429_b25_48087
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002t40v
- 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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