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Item
Title
C33-2
Date(s)
- 1935-08-15 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Copy of last photograph of humorist Will Rogers (center) and aviator Wiley Post (right) before their deaths in airplane crash on August 15, 1935. Titled " Aug. 15th, 5:30 p.m.- Palmer, Alaska." On August 15, 1935, close friends Wiley Post and Will Rogers died in a plane crash 16 miles outside of Barrow, Alaska. The true cause of the crash remains unknown. Original snapshot rephotographed for F. J. Vassau. (Argentum)
Rogers, Will; Post, Wiley; Celebrities--1930-1940; Entertainers--1930-1940; Aviators;