California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aviators Frank H. Johnson and Glen Curtiss with a Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910

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Aviators Frank H. Johnson and Glen Curtiss with a Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910

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Photograph of aviators Frank H. Johnson and Glen Curtiss with a Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910. Johnson is seated at the controls and is holding a steering wheel at right. He is wearing a dark pinstriped suit and a dark hat. Curtiss is standing at right and is also wearing a dark suit with a cap. The plane's engine is directly behind Johnson at left, and the canvas-covered wings are both visible. Part of the plane's tricycle landing gear is visible in the grass at bottom.

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Title Aviators Frank H. Johnson and Glen Curtiss with a Curtiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1910

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Air pilots (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Curtiss, Glenn (personal name), Dominguez Air Meet (subject), Johnson, Frank H. (personal name), Transportation -- Air -- People and planes (file heading)

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 ; 26 x 21 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13369

Identifier 11687 (accession number), CHS-11687 (call number), CHS-11687 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12870 (legacy record id), chs-m13369 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13523 (legacy record id), 1-102- (microfiche number), 1-70-157 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12870

Unique identifier UC134693

Legacy Identifier CHS-11687.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.6 in × 19.1 in at 300dpi
39.6 cm × 48.7 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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