Title |
Rocheville and Kerr and Fairchild 71 monoplane with folded the wings ready to be place on barge and delivered to Merritt Chapman and Scott |
Photo Number |
p0561n02_08_14 |
Description |
Caption: 1503 Rocheville and Kerr ferried plane to north-beach Flushing (now site of LaGuardia Airport)--folded the wings and delivered it to Merritt Chapman and Scott. This picture shows airplane ready to be placed on barge--then transferred to after-deck of the American Export Lines, S.S. Exochorda to be carried to Alexandria. Plane was off-loaded at Alexandria, flown to Cairo, Gaza, Bagdad, Basrah and Jubail |
Date |
1934 |
Textual Date |
1934 |
Keywords |
Saudi Aramco Jubail; Fairchild 71; Vehicles; Aircraft; Heavier than air aircraft; Fixed-wing aircraft; Monoplanes; Watercraft; Monohulls; Barges (flat-bottomed watercraft); Men; Workers; Snow; Rocheville, Charles; Mechanics; Pilots; Kerr, Richard; Geophysicists; Geologists; Navigators; Pilots; Photographers; Snapshots |
Subject |
Airplanes--Photographs; Men--Photographs |
Spatial Coverage |
Flushing (New York, N.Y.) |
Additional Information |
The photographs in the Wallace Earle Stegner Photograph Collection include portraits of Wallace Stegner, his wife Mary Page Stegner, their son Stuart Page Stegner, and one of his good friends, the writer Bernard DeVoto, as well as various photographs from trips he took that include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, Italy, and Asia. |
Collection Number and Name |
P0561 Wallace Stegner Photograph Collection |
Collection Name |
Wallace Stegner |
Rights |
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Type |
Image |
Finding Aid |
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv35256/ |
Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, 24-bit color at 800 ppi. Archival file is uncompressed TIF. |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s62v3xtt |
Setname |
uum_map |
ID |
994591 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62v3xtt |