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[Le Roy Dennis Paulson photograph collection].
BANC PIC 2017.144--PIC; BANC PIC 2017.144
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Title:
[Le Roy Dennis Paulson photograph collection]Creator/Contributor:
Paulson, Le Roy Dennis, creator, creator.Abstract:
Photographs of Le Roy Dennis Paulson and perhaps other flight radio operators; China Clipper planes and other seaplanes associated
with Paulson's career, with Pan American Airlines and with Wake Island; and views of the Canal Zone in Panama, with scenes
of Panama City and the Panama Canal.
Date:
1924 (issued)Subject:
ncpn--- -- nccz--- -- powk---Paulson, Le Roy Dennis -- Photographs
Pan American World Airways, Inc. -- Photographs
Flight radio operators -- Photographs
Seaplanes -- Photographs
China Clipper (Airplane) -- Photographs
Canal Zone -- Photographs
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Photographs
Panama (Panama) -- Photographs
Wake Island -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected, perhaps photographed by Le Roy Dennis Paulson (step-father of donor).
Le Roy Dennis Paulson photograph collection, BANC PIC 2017.144, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift ; of Edward Cooper ; 2016.
Le Roy Dennis Paulson (aka "The Swede"): born Le Roy Dennis Samuelson on May 8, 1905, Willow River, Minnesota; changed last
name in 1940; while with U.S. Navy, travelled through Panama Canal in 1924; worked as flight radio officer for Pan Am Airways
from mid-1930s to World War II, and after the war; married to Esther Kaluhiokalani, then Carol Cooper Paulson; worked for
some time on Wake Island; died in Ukiah, California on March 16, 1983. (Biographical information from donor.)
Transferred from the Cooper family papers (BANC MSS 2017.110).
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
photoprint
45 photographs in 3 folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets 22 x 28 cm or smaller
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2017.144--PIC
BANC PIC 2017.144