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Description:: Back of a poster commemorating the 175th anniversary of Los Angeles with advertisements for Coberly Mercury and Greer-Haldeman Pontiac automobiles, and for A. H. Ross & Co. tires.
Date:: 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Bessie Coleman standing with a large car. She is part of an advertisement for California Made Coast Tires.
Date:: [1921-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Thomas C. Allen was an airplane mechanic who with James Herman Banning were the first African Americans to make a transcontinental flight in 1932. Their historic flight led to other long-distance flights by black aviators.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: William J. Powell created the Bessie Coleman Flying School in the 1930s. The image of the women pilots in this advertisement also appears, in fuller form, in an advertisement for Craftsmen of Black Wings, and the same women appear in an image of the members of the Bessie Coleman Aero [Aeronautics] Club, also founded by Powell.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The airport located at 135th and Western Avenue was called the Western Avenue Airport from 1936 to 1939.
Date:: [1936-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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