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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Lincoln Beachey and Horace Kearny in flight at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912
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Lincoln Beachey and Horace Kearny in flight at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912
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Description
Photograph of Lincoln Beachey and Horace Kearny in flight at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. The two aviators are in separate Curtiss biplanes that are both airborne and silhouetted against a cloudy sky. Both planes have tricycle landing gear and are flying to the left. A large crowd is gathered on the ground at left, and many of the people are standing near early-model automobiles. There is a man on a horse at the right side of the crowd.
Asset Metadata
Title
Lincoln Beachey and Horace Kearny in flight at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Airplanes
(lcsh),
airport features
(adlf),
Beachey, Lincoln
(subject),
Dominguez Air Meet of 1912
(subject),
Kearney, Horace
(subject),
Transportation -- Air -- Aviation Meets -- Dominguez Air Show -- #2 (1912)
(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
1912
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : 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
1912
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-m13073
Identifier
11712 (
accession number
), CHS-11712 (
call number
), CHS-11712 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12601 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13073 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13225 (
legacy record id
), 1-102- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12601
Unique identifier
UC133754
Legacy Identifier
CHS-11712.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.3 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 28.9 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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