California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Aviator Glenn Curtiss and his wife Lena with a Curtiss biplane at Dominguez Field, 1909

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Aviator Glenn Curtiss and his wife Lena with a Curtiss biplane at Dominguez Field, 1909

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Photograph of aviator Glenn Curtiss, the first man to fly an airplane west of the Rockies, and his wife Lena with a Curtiss biplane at Dominguez Field, 1909. Lena is sitting at the controls of the aircraft at center and is holding the steering wheel while looking to the right. She is wearing a long dress and a large dark hat. Her husband is standing on the ground slightly left of center and is holding on to the frame of the airplane. He is wearing a dark suit and a dark cap and has a thick mustache. The canvas covered wooden wings of the aircraft are behind the couple, and the plane's engine is mounted between the wings.

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Title Aviator Glenn Curtiss and his wife Lena with a Curtiss biplane at Dominguez Field, 1909

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Air pilots (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Curtiss, Glenn (subject), Curtiss, Lena (subject), Dominguez Air Meet (subject), Transportation -- Air -- People in aviation (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1909

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (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 1909

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13355

Identifier 11695 (accession number), CHS-11695 (call number), CHS-11695 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12856 (legacy record id), chs-m13355 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13508 (legacy record id), 1-102- (microfiche number), 1-70-154 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12856

Unique identifier UC134922

Legacy Identifier CHS-11695.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 35.5 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

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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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