California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

F.H. Johnson at the wheel of a plane at the Dominguez Field, ca.1910

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F.H. Johnson at the wheel of a plane at the Dominguez Field, ca.1910

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Photograph of F.H. Johnson at the wheel of a plane at the Dominguez Field, ca.1910. Johnson is seated at center with both hands on a wheel in front of him at right. He is wearing a pinstriped suit and dress shoes, as well as a pair of glasses. His hair is neatly slicked back on his head. The plane's eight-cylinder engine is directly behind his head, and the canvas wings of the aircraft are visible across the top of the image.

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Title F.H. Johnson at the wheel of a plane at the Dominguez Field, ca.1910

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Air pilots (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Dominguez Air Meet (subject), Johnson, Frank H. (personal name), 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 1910

Type images

Format 2 photograph : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13361

Identifier 11688 (accession number), CHS-11688 (call number), CHS-11688 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12862 (legacy record id), chs-m13361 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13514 (legacy record id), 1-102- (microfiche number), 1-90-313 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12862

Unique identifier UC134966

Legacy Identifier CHS-11688.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.7 in × 17.5 in at 300dpi
32.4 cm × 44.5 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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