Captain C.B.D. Collyer and Harry Tucker with their monoplane Yankee Doodle, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Captain C.B.D. Collyer and Harry Tucker with their monoplane Yankee Doodle, Los Angeles, 1928
- Date Created
- October 25 1928
- Date
- 1928-10-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Breaks Flight Record," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1928: A1.
Collyer wears his pilot's uniform with his hands on his hips. Harry Tucker stands beside him wearing a suit and holding his hat. The Yankee Doodle can be seen behind them.
This photograph appears in two different articles from October 1928 and November 1928.
In October 1928 Collyer and Harry Tucker completed the second East-West nonstop transcontinental flight in 24 hours and 58 minutes, which was one hour and 52 minutes under the record established by the first flight. On November 5th their bodies were discovered along the side of Crook Canyon in the Bradshaw Mountains in Prescott, Arizona, along with the remains of the monoplane Yankee Doodle. It is speculated by the Sheriff's search party that the craft struck the canyon and exploded upon impact while the two were flying from Los Angeles to New York City for a business engagement.
Photograph also appears with the article, "Yankee Doodle Flyers Die In Arizona Crash," Los Angeles Times, 05 Nov 1928: 2.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928
Tucker, Harry, 1891-1928 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Monoplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1696
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dc6m6
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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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