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Advertisement for Mercury Aviation Company, located at DeMille Field, ca.1925
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Advertisement for Mercury Aviation Company, located at DeMille Field, ca.1925
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Description
Photograph of an advertisement for Mercury Aviation Company, located at DeMille Field, ca.1925. At the time there were three DeMille Fields in Los Angeles. A bi-plane with people looking out the windows is depicted centrally. Above are the words, "Flying", in large block letters with wings atached and the words "The New Industry". Below, a map features Los Angeles with arrows pointing three different directions, each with one of the following locations, San Diego, San Francisco, and Chicago. Further below is what appears to be a silhouette of an industrial city with smoke stacks, powerlines, and oil derricks, with the words "Mercury Avation Co., De Mille Field, Los Angeles, California".; Photoprint reads: "As illustrated in the picture, DeMille operated three fields in the LA area. #2 (not shown) was north of the Wilshire/Fairfax intersection. At the time (early 1920s), DeMille was the largest aviation operator in the LA area and his thoughts began to turn toward the establishment of a scheduled airline to San Francisco and San Diego".
Asset Metadata
Title
Advertisement for Mercury Aviation Company, located at DeMille Field, ca.1925
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Aircraft industry
(lcsh),
cities
(adlf),
Mercury Aviation Company
(subject),
Transportation -- Air -- Commercial
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1925
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(aat),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1925
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-m13021
Identifier
33084 (
accession number
), CHS-33084 (
call number
), CHS-33084 (
filename
), chs-m825 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12555 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13021 (
legacy record id
), USC-2-1-1-13173 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12555
Unique identifier
UC133622
Legacy Identifier
CHS-33084.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
16.3 in × 20.6 in at 300dpi
41.5 cm × 52.4 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960
Description
The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960
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