Winnie Mae shortly after landing, Muroc Dry Lake, circa 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Winnie Mae shortly after landing, Muroc Dry Lake, circa 1935
- Photographer
- Snyder, Bill
- Date Created
- circa February 1935
- Date
- 1935-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The Winnie Mae rests in the sand at the end of a long white line of fuselage. Several cars are parked around the plane and a few men stand around.
Photograph appears with the article, "Wiley Post, Forced Down on Continental Stratosphere Flight, Escapes Unhurt," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb 1935: 14. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: POST, WILEY X
Text from newspaper caption: AIR VIEW SHOWS HOW POST'S PLANE SKIDDED This exclusive picture, taken from an airplane, shows how the "Winnie Mae" skidded on the smooth dry lake bottom. Note the long trail left by the fuselage on the sand. Post dropped landing gear shortly after take-off, to cut air resistance and had intended to land on his fuselage at the end of his hop at Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island. Photo taken by Bill Snyder, "Times" Staff Photographer.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7225
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cxkrb
- 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
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .