California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of the Western Air Express airport from the street, on March 19, 1931

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View of the Western Air Express airport from the street, on March 19, 1931

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Photograph of a view of the Western Air Express airport from the street, on March 19, 1931. A two-story structure with a small control tower(?) atop it sits across a paved road, while several automobiles park in front of its shady entrance. The road curves toward the left, and several trees and small bushes stand on a grassy lawn by a shorter extension of the airport's main building. A wind sock stands atop the top floor of the structure, blowing towards the right, while a weather vein sits next to it, at left.

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Title View of the Western Air Express airport from the street, on March 19, 1931

Subject Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Airports (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Alhambra -- Architecture -- General (file heading), Western Air Express (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930-03-19

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1930-03-19

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-m18642

Identifier 35943 (accession number), CHS-35943 (call number), CHS-35943 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15908 (legacy record id), chs-m18642 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15908

Unique identifier UC135572

Legacy Identifier CHS-35943.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 34.6 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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