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File:Lt HA Beswick and Mayor Bertha Landes in plane at Sand Point airfield, Seattle, ca 1927 (MOHAI 768).jpg

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English: Lt. H.A. Beswick and Mayor Bertha Landes in plane at Sand Point airfield, Seattle, ca. 1927   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Staff Photographer
English: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Title
English: Lt. H.A. Beswick and Mayor Bertha Landes in plane at Sand Point airfield, Seattle, ca. 1927
Description
English:

At the time of this photograph in the mid-1920s, Sand Point consisted of a runway, a few farmhouses, and a commanding Naval officer with Naval Reserve assistants. Lt. H.A. Beswick was the first instructor of aviation at Sand Point. Reservists met on Sunday to fly regardless of the weather. In this photograph from around 1927, Lt. Beswick is shown in a plane at Sand Point with Seattle's first woman mayor, Bertha Landes, in the back.

Handwritten on image: [...] Beswick. Caption information sources: HistoryLink.org.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Airplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Air pilots--Washington (State)--Seattle; Mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle; Air bases--Washington (State)--Seattle; Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • People: Beswick, H.A.; Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle

Sand Point (Seattle, Wash.)

Washington, Lake (Wash.)
Date circa 1927
date QS:P571,+1927-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
768
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Credit Line
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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