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| Title | Aviator Lonnie Brennan and unidentified woman with plane, probably in Seattle, 1929 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1929 |
| Caption | Lonnie 'Lon' Brennan became a commercial pilot in 1920 and was based out of Vancouver, Bremerton, and Seattle before moving to Alaska. In 1939, he began a bush flying service out of Manley Hot Springs near Fairbanks, Alaska. After his retirement in 1948, he moved back to the Pacific Northwest, settling on Camano Island.
This 1929 photograph of Brennan posing on the wing of a plane bearing 'Seattle Flying' on the side could have been from the time period when he serviced routes between Seattle and Spokane. The woman in the plane is unidentified. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Lonnie Brennan.
Caption information sources: Lon Brennan obituary in Seattle P-I.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 22, 1929. |
| Subjects | Air pilots--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Goggles--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Brennan, Lonnie |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5G.160.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
