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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Aviator William Hoff behind the wheel of a biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, January 1912
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Aviator William Hoff behind the wheel of a biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, January 1912
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Description
Photograph of aviator William Hoff behind the wheel of a biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, January 1912. Hoff is seated in his aircraft at center and has both hands on a steering wheel in front of him. He is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and a hard helmet. There is a ring on his finger at left. The canvas-covered upper wing of the airplane is visible behind and above the pilot's head, and a canard fore plane is visible in front of him. There is a man leaning on the plane at left and another man in a suit standing behind the plane at right. Photoprint reads: "He placed 2nd or 3rd in every event he entered".
Asset Metadata
Title
Aviator William Hoff behind the wheel of a biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, January 1912
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Air pilots
(lcsh),
Airplanes
(lcsh),
airport features
(adlf),
Dominguez Air Meet
(subject),
Hoff, William
(subject),
Transportation -- Air -- People and planes
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Dominguez Hills
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1912
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1912
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13349
Identifier
11715 (
accession number
), CHS-11715 (
call number
), CHS-11715 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12850 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13349 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13502 (
legacy record id
), 1-102- (
microfiche number
), 1-90-274 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12850
Unique identifier
UC134920
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11715.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 30.8 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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