Subject: Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Western Air Express plane crash in the mountains near Olive View sanatorium that left five dead. Martin Johnson and James A. Braden were two of the passengers who died when the plane crashed into the Santa Clara Ridge.
Date:: January 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage from crash that occurred near Sprott Airport at Telegraph Road and Atlantic Boulevard. Pilot and passenger survived. Man next to plane may be George (Tony) Schwamm, pilot of plane and son of former Fire Commissioner Anthony Schwamm.
Date:: October 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage from crash that occurred near Sprott Airport at Telegraph Road and Atlantic Boulevard. Pilot and passenger survived. Man next to plane may be George (Tony) Schwamm, pilot of plane and son of former Fire Commissioner Anthony Schwamm.
Date:: October 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Policeman Charles L. Nelson inspects the wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Man surveys the wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Wreckage of a plane crash that killed 34-year-old test pilot Clark McRoy and his 15-year-old passenger Russell C. Holt. Holt's father, Elwin E. Holt, watched the crash and saw the plane hit the ground 300 yards from his home. Holt said he saw his son wave from the plane before it went into a sharp dive.
Date:: November 25, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Dates on negative sleeve do not correspond with newspaper caption, which dates the event to August 3, 1935.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators watch as wreckage form a small plane is removed from Mines Field.
Date:: September, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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