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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Aviator Charles F. Willard at the controls of his Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910
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Aviator Charles F. Willard at the controls of his Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910
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Photograph of aviator Charles F. Willard at the controls of his Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910. Willard is seated at center and is seen in profile as he looks to the right. He is holding the steering wheel for the aircraft in front of him, which won the "Scientific American" cup. The two canvas covered wings of the aircraft are at left, and mounted between them is a small engine attached to a pusher propeller. The plane is on the ground inside a massive tent, which is visible overhead. According to Willard, "the machine was called the Golden Flyer and was built for the Aeronautical Society of New York City by Glenn Curtiss. It was the first Curtiss airplane made. It was ordered by the Society to educate the public to air flight and the first to make public flights in the U.S. Also was first commercial plane purchased in U.S.". Photoprint reads: "Mr. Willard came into the office the early part of January 1960 -- the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the first air meet in the United States --1910 at Dominguez Field, near Long Beach".
Asset Metadata
Title
Aviator Charles F. Willard at the controls of his Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Air pilots
(lcsh),
Airplanes
(lcsh),
airport features
(adlf),
Dominguez Air Meet
(subject),
Transportation -- Air -- People and planes
(file heading),
Willard, Charles
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1910
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 20 x 25 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
1910
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-m13360
Identifier
11693 (
accession number
), CHS-11693 (
call number
), CHS-11693 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12861 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13360 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13513 (
legacy record id
), 1-103- (
microfiche number
), 1-90-719 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12861
Unique identifier
UC134983
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11693.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.3 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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