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Description:: Frank Austin and Heard McClellan wear parachute packs as they stand facing an airplane in an airfield. In 1926, the Aero Corporation of California was formed. Jack Frye was its President. The corporation operated out of an airfield along Western Avenue, between 94th and 104th Streets. This image appears with the photo page "Camera Reveals Taylor and Grange on Friendly Terms to Last," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 27, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Frank Austin and Heard McClellan wear parachute packs as they stand facing an airplane in an airfield. In 1926, the Aero Corporation of California was formed. Jack Frye was its President. The corporation operated out of an airfield along Western Avenue, between 94th and 104th Streets. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the photo spread titled "Camera Reveals Taylor and Grange on Friendly Terms to Last," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 27, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Antoine Gazda, European inventor of defensive armament.
Date:: May 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: After struggling for a year with illness the vice president and production manager of the Emsco Derrick and Equipment Company passed away at 53 years of age. He is credited as inventing one of the first electrical vacuum cleaners in 1911.
Date:: January 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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