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Breece Lumber Company Airplane
Breece Lumber Company Airplane
Breece Lumber Company Airplane

Breece Lumber Company Airplane

Date1937
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (11.5 × 16.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Clark Speakman
Object numberPA1968.001.149
DescriptionA Spartan C3 aircraft, registration number C72M, of the George E. Breece Lumber Company, is at the Albuquerque Airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is parked in front of Hangar #2. In the center frame, a left-side facing, single-engine bi-plane is parked in front of large hangar building. The building has brick sides and a curved roof. The door is open, there are several windows along the interior wall. A Two men are standing behind the fuselage. Painted on the tail of the aircraft, a registration number reads, "C72M" and the name "Spartan." Text painted along the side of the fuselage reads, "George E. Breece Lumber Co." and "Lumber-Boxes-Crates." Another bi-plane is parked along the side of the hangar in the left frame, with the registration number, "C814E"
Handwriting on the back of the photograph reads, "Chalky Breece's Airplane Spartan J-5. Breece and Cutler."
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