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Photograph of Florence Lee Jones Cahlan and others, Nellis Airforce Base, 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Florence Lee Jones Cahlan, third from left, with others at the Nellis Air Force Base. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)
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Photograph of Florence Lee Jones Cahlan, 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of Florence Lee Jones Cahlan seated at a typewriter.
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Photograph of John Cahlan and others, 1920s
Date
1971-08-29
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of a group of men during the 1920s that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper on August 29, 1971, page 6. From left to right: Col. Moore; Capt. Roscoe Turner; John Cahlan; Mr. Smith; Major Force.
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Photograph of first mail flight, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1926
Date
1926
Archival Collection
Description
First mail flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Front left: Maury Graham, pilot; At scales: Harris M. "Pop" Hanshue, founder of Western Air Express, later called Western Airlines. Los Angeles postmaster is weighing mail sacks.
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Photograph of Western Airlines M2, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 17, 1926
Date
1926
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of the Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation) M2 lined up on Rockwell Field.
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Photograph of Western Airlines M2, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1926
Date
1926
Archival Collection
Description
Western Airlines M2 biplane-first plane to fly Los Angeles-Salt Lake route, stopping in Las Vegas en route. Note Indian head on fuselage-first insignia of Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation).
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Four horsemen of Western Airlines, plus one, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1926
Date
1926
Archival Collection
Description
Four Horsemen of Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation), plus one, standing in front of M2 plane. From left to right: Fred Kelly, Jimmy James, Al DeGarmo, Maury Graham. At far right: C. C. Mosely, manager of Las Vegas airport.
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Photograph of Western Airlines plane, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1926
Date
1926
Archival Collection
Description
Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation) plane being refueled at Rockwell Field , Las Vegas, by Nevada Oil Co. truck. Note the landing strip.
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Photograph of Western Airlines, Alhambra Airport, 1930
Date
1930
Archival Collection
Description
Glamorous Fanchon and Marco girls helping Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation) inaugurate four-engine airliner service from Alhambra Airport. These four-engine aircraft were Fokker planes.
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Photograph of pilots with boy scout knife, late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Western Airlines' first pilot Fred Kelly, showing a boy scout knife to other veteran flier Jimmy James on the left. Center, company engineer Herbert Hoover, Jr. son of the late President. They are standing beside a Douglas M-2 biplane, the type of aircraft first used in 1926 by Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation).
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