Alvin P. Adams, president of Western Air Express, and a woman, probably his wife Elizabeth Adams, between 1934-1940 (?)

Title: Alvin P. Adams, president of Western Air Express, and a woman, probably his wife Elizabeth Adams, between 1934-1940 (?)
Date Created: [between 1934-1940?]
Date: 1934/1940
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Elizabeth Adams was the daughter Nathan Miller, a well-to-do one-time Governor of New York. She was married to Alvin P. Adams from 1929 to at least 1940.
Incorrect middle initial of Alvin P. Adams typed on negative sleeve.
Alvin P. Adams was president of Western Air Express Corporation from 1934 to 1940. It was the oldest passenger line in the country, with the route from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Diego established in 1926.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Alvin [illegible] Adams
Text from negative sleeve: Adams, Alvin D. & Mrs. Pres. Western Air Express.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Adams, Elizabeth, 1907-1980
Adams, Alvin P. (Alvin Philip), 1905-1996
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Airlines--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10998
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8z1x
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