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Items from Box 12, Folder 13 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1939-1944. Contains a Learadio dealer franchise agreement form (blank) and a page from Appendix B of a Lear Avia contract. Two total documents.
Photograph of a Douglas DC-3 instrument panel with a Learadio ADF 8 automatic direction finder, circa 1940s. The direction finder and two gauges are circled and numbered. Inscription on verso: "Copy of instrument panel (Chicago and [illegible] DC-3)."
[Sydney Nesbitt presenting Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson]
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Photograph of Sydney Nesbitt (left) presenting a Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson, winner of the Alcazar Trophy Race, Miami, Florida, January 1941. An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps serviceman stands in the background. The accompanying Lear Avia press release describes the event. Thompson's first name is misspelled as "Catherine" in the press release.