California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, 1910

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Dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, 1910

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Photograph of dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, 1910. Two football-shaped zeppelins race across the skies, flying at low altitude. Each of them has single pilots. The pilots stand on a skeletal structure consisting of metal bars that is attached to the balloon with wires. Spectators (or judges) stand below on the plain field watching the zeppelins race. Further in the sky is a hot-air balloon with the phrase "all in the Examiner" painted on it.

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Title Dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, 1910

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Airplane racing (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Airships (lcsh), Dominguez Air Meet of 1910 (subject), Transportation -- Air -- Aviation Meets -- Dominguez Air Show -- 1910 (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 1910-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 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 1910-01

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

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-m13050

Identifier 5594 (accession number), CHS-5594 (call number), CHS-5594 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12586 (legacy record id), chs-m13050 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13202 (legacy record id), 1-102-7 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12586

Unique identifier UC134977

Legacy Identifier CHS-5594.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.6 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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