California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Graf Zeppelin and the small Goodyear pony blimp floating (or parked?) next to each other, 1929

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Graf Zeppelin and the small Goodyear pony blimp floating (or parked?) next to each other, 1929

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Photograph of the Graf Zeppelin and the small Goodyear pony blimp floating (or parked?) next to each other, 1929. The Graf Zeppelin is about ten times the size of the Goodyear blimp. Both the blimps are on the other side of the fence in the foreground. Several warning signs are posted up including a no-parking sign.

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Title Graf Zeppelin and the small Goodyear pony blimp floating (or parked?) next to each other, 1929

Subject airport features (adlf), Airships (lcsh), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (naf corporate name), Graf Zeppelin (subject), Mines Field (subject), Transportation -- Air -- Airships (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1929

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 1929

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-m12857

Identifier 8435 (accession number), CHS-8435 (call number), CHS-8435 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12321 (legacy record id), chs-m12857 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13009 (legacy record id), 1-102-19 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12321

Unique identifier UC133724

Legacy Identifier CHS-8435.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.1 in × 12.1 in at 300dpi
48.5 cm × 30.7 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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