Robert Wilson and Dr. F.A. Fender with Dr. Light's seaplane, San Pedro, 1935

Title: Robert Wilson and Dr. F.A. Fender with Dr. Light's seaplane, San Pedro, 1935
Date Created: January 1935
Date: 1935-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Surgical instructor at Yale Medical School Dr. Richard Light is flying around the world on his Bellanca seaplane accompanied by recent Yale graduate Robert Wilson. They have flown to Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, England, Italy, Mesopotamia, India, Siam, the Malay States, the Dutch East Indies, and Manila.
Dr. Fender and Robert stand on a rudder of the plane.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Flying Doctor and Chum Arrive on World Tour," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1935: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: WILSON, ROBERT PILOT Early Aviation

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Fender, F.A., (Dr.)
Wilson, Robert
Location: San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Harbors--California--San Pedro
Physicians--American--California--San Pedro
Tourists--California--San Pedro
Air travel
Seaplanes--American--California--San Pedro

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4515
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cqb2x
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