Hearses carrying the bodies of Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post after they arrived by plane, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title
Hearses carrying the bodies of Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post after they arrived by plane, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created
August 19, 1935
Date
1935-08-19
Publisher
Los Angeles Times
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
Description
Hearses outside at an airplane hangar carrying the bodies of Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post after they arrived by plane, with several police men providing security.
Caption
Handwritten on negative: Hearses bearing Roger's and Post's Bodies, 8/19/1935.
Text from negative sleeve: Hearses bearing Rogers & Post's bodies. 8/20/1835. 1619. NITRATE. Aug. 27, 1935, 1 neg.

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image
Subjects
People
Transportation

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier
uclamss_1429_0027
ARK
ark:/21198/zz002d96zg
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

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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
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License
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