R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930

Item Overview
- Title
- R. V. "Doc" Howard and Gwen Seager bid farewell to Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart before their takeoff, Los Angeles, 1929-1930
- Date Created
- 1929-1930
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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With the shouts of encouragement of 10,000 people Mendell and Reinhart took to the air in their Albatross monoplane, Pride of Hollywood, in a long-planned attempt to restore to Los Angeles the world's record for sustained flight.
Miss Seager smiles at Mendell and Reinhart as she offers them a bouquet of flowers. A group of men can be seen behind them examining the Pride of Hollywood.
Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Goes Up Seeking Record," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1930: A1. - Caption
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Text from newspaper caption: Former Record Holders Try to Regain Laurels Left to right, Pete Reinhart, Loren Mendell, Gwynn Seager, who christened plane, and R. V. Howard. Below the plane, Pride of Hollywood, just before the take-off.
Handwritten on negative: R V Howard Gwynn Seager Loren Mendell Pete Reinhart
Text from negative sleeve: MENDELL, LOREN AVIATOR, 1929
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Bouquets
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Seager, Gwen, 1913-2000
Reinhart, R. B., (Pete Reinhart)
Mendell, Loren W., b. 1898 or 99-1935
Howard, R. V.
Pride of Hollywood - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_6543
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cws71
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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