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

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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Goes Up Seeking Record," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1930: A1.
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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: MENDELL, LOREN AVIATOR, 1929
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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Bouquets
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles

Names

Mendell, Loren W., b. 1898 or 99-1935
Howard, R. V.
Seager, Gwen, 1913-2000
Reinhart, R. B., (Pete Reinhart)
Pride of Hollywood

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image