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  • Subject is exactly "Sperry Air Service"
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Actors and actresses from the film, "Don't Marry" which was filmed at the Santa Cruz Golf and Country Club (Pogonip). They posed here with carrier pigeon containers from Sperry Air Service. "The members of the company sent messages via the pigeons to…

Date: 1920's or 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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Norma Talmadge (?) holding a pigeon from Sperry Air Service. The sign in front is advertising "The Dove," a silent film which was released in late 1927.

Date: ca. 1927
Type: PHOTO

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A man (Eugene M. Van Antwerp?) holding a pigeon in front of the Sperry Air Service Loft 1. Carrier pigeons were used by Mr. Van Antwerp, manager of the Sperry Flour Company, to send orders from the San Lorenzo Valley back to the store in Santa Cruz.

Date: ca. 1930's
Type: PHOTO

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