Pan American Airways Samoan Clipper before its fatal crash, Pago Pago, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Pan American Airways Samoan Clipper before its fatal crash, Pago Pago, 1938

Date Created

December 1938

Date

1938-12

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A photograph against a black background picturing the Samoan Clipper in mid-flight over the ocean. The caption is: (NY9 Jan.12) SILENCE OF SOUTH SEAS HIDES WORD OF CLIPPER'S FATE--Conflicting reports today continued to leave in mystery the exact fate of the Samoan Clipper, shown above in striking airview. Unconfirmed reports reaching Dunedin, New Zealand, said the plane had been sighted afloat 74 miles west of Apia, British Samoa, but fears grew at Pago Pago, American Samoa, that the 21-ton flying boat's gasoline might have caught fire as it was dumped into the Pacific preparatory to landing. (r4112ofle)' 38
Photograph appears with the headline, "Each Year Brings New Grist of News and Here Are Things That 1938 Brought," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1938: 8.
This photograph is part of a collage of world events of 1938.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 15381 - Pan American Airways Clipper ship Samoan Clipper (used in events of 1938 montage, 12/30/38 article "Each Year Brings...") [stamped:] Jan 19 1939
Text from newspaper caption: The year 1938 was a year of war jitters and jitterbugs, world-shaking events such as a nation losing its identity and such trivia as the Lambeth Walk. In between there were many other happenings, which, though not great news events, held the attention of the public for a time and gave character to 1938. This page presents an array of such events. Starting at top left-hand corner and going across the page row by row are pictures which should refresh the money on the following stories: Peter Levine kidnaping murder-Barbara Hutton's break with her Danish Count-Hedy Lamarr's leap to film fame-Paul Wright's trial for murder-Andrea Luckenbach's marriage to butter-and-eggs salesman-all Europe buys gas masks-Greta Garbo's and Leopold Stokowski's Riviera interlude-vanishing of Samoan Clipper-Mayor Hague's rule over Jersey City-the up or down hair-do tempest - John Roosevelt's marriage - Woody Hockaday's antics - King and Queen of England visit Paris - James Cash kidnaping murder-Orson Welles Martian invasion scare-Prince Gustaf of Sweden visits America-Philip La Follette's third party-Governor O'Daniel's Texas campaign-Barbara Carrol, figure in strange murder tangle-Father Divine falls heir to Crum Elbow, estate next Roosevelt's-daughter born to Dutch princess.
Handwritten on negative: b

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pan American Airways Corporation

Location

Pago Pago (Samoa)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Oceans
Seaplanes--American--Samoa--Pago Pago
Aircraft accidents--Samoa--Pago Pago