Interior of a Douglas Airliner, Los Angeles County, Calif., 1938

6 photographs of the interior of a Douglas Sleeper Transport airplane, with models playing the parts of passengers and a Black steward, most likely taken in Los Angeles County, California, 1938 August 30. "Client: Douglas; Agency: Al Essig Co[mpany]; all prints for stock must be captioned: Interior of a Douglas Airliner; operator's report - name: Joe - Jack; 20 original photographs @ 10.00, 5 @ 7.50; Model: 10 - [Amount] 145-; Costumes: 10.00; Amount: 237.50" - on envelope. "20 @ 10.00, 10 additional @ 7.50, 20 additional @ 5.00; copy neg[atives] to Douglas 2.00; air brush retouching extra; costumes 10.00; models 145.00" - on Whittington studio notepaper. Editor's note: the most likely venues for this shoot are Santa Monica, the home of Douglas Aircraft at this time, and Glendale, the Los Angeles-area airport then used by American Airlines, for whom the DST was made.