California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Western Air Express hangar in Alhambra, 1930

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Exterior view of the Western Air Express hangar in Alhambra, 1930

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Western Air Express hangar in Alhambra, 1930. The hexagonal hangar is in the background at center. It is a large, light-colored building with wide openings on each of its six sides. The center of the building is held up by scaffolding. There are several large Ford Tri-Motor airplanes visible, including one entering the hangar at left and another leaving at right. The area in front of the hangar is flat and covered with dirt. Several sets of tire marks are visible on the ground.

Asset Metadata

Title Exterior view of the Western Air Express hangar in Alhambra, 1930

Subject Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Airports (lcsh), Transportation -- Air -- General (file heading), Western Air Express (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm., 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 1930

Contributor Barnett, Clyde (contributor)

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-m12843

Identifier 14214 (accession number), CHS-14214 (call number), CHS-14214 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12308 (legacy record id), chs-m12843 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12995 (legacy record id), 1-102-30 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12308

Unique identifier UC132206

Legacy Identifier CHS-14214.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 40.8 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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