California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Louis Paulhan making record altitude flight at Dominguez Air show, 1910

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Louis Paulhan making record altitude flight at Dominguez Air show, 1910

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Photograph of Louis Paulhan making record altitude flight at Dominguez Air show, 1910. To the left, Louis Paulhan is visible flying a small biplane. The plane is composed of two flat, parallel wings, an extended square tail, and a long flap above the top wing. Also, four wheels can be seen below the frame of the plane. In the foreground below the plane, crowds of spectators sit in benches and watch the show. In the background, two American flags can be seen draped on poles near the edge of the crowd. A description on the photograph reads: "Louis Paulhan Making His Record Breaking Fleight For Altitude - 4600 ft".

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Title Louis Paulhan making record altitude flight at Dominguez Air show, 1910

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Airplane racing (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Dominguez Air Meet of 1910 (subject), Paulhan, Louis (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 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 9 x 14 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 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-m13049

Identifier 33881 (accession number), CHS-33881 (call number), CHS-33881 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12577 (legacy record id), chs-m13049 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13201 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12577

Unique identifier UC133279

Legacy Identifier CHS-33881.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.0 in × 14.4 in at 300dpi
55.9 cm × 36.6 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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