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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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View of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, with airborne plane, ca.1910
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View of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, with airborne plane, ca.1910
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Description
Photograph of a view of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, ca.1910. W.R. Brookins is shown airborne in his Wright Model A biplane, which is visible in the left sky as it executes a turn. Two other biplanes are visible on the ground. A group of five people can be seen standing around the plane on the left, while a lone pilot stands near the plane on the right. In the foreground at the center of the picture, two people are walking towards the grounded planes. On the horizon, two more small groups of people can be seen.
Asset Metadata
Title
View of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, with airborne plane, ca.1910
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Airplanes
(lcsh),
airport features
(adlf),
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
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
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-m13054
Identifier
9600 (
accession number
), CHS-9600 (
call number
), CHS-9600 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12582 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13054 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13206 (
legacy record id
), 1-102-22 (
microfiche number
), 1-103-22 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12582
Unique identifier
UC134820
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9600.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.1 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 40.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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