California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Pilots readying an aircraft for the first air mail flight by Western Air Express, April 17, 1926

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Pilots readying an aircraft for the first air mail flight by Western Air Express, April 17, 1926

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Photograph of pilots readying an aircraft for the first air mail flight by Western Air Express, April 17, 1926. A line of four identical Douglass M-2 biplanes starts at center and extends into the distance at left. In front of the foremost plane, a group of men is standing near a pile of large mail sacks, and still more people are standing in front of a large mail truck at right. The truck is an early-model vehicle with a cargo area enclosed with wire. The ground is covered with rough grass.

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Title Pilots readying an aircraft for the first air mail flight by Western Air Express, April 17, 1926

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1926-04-17

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegatives, 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 1926-04-17

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-m12836

Identifier 13048 (accession number), CHS-13048 (call number), CHS-13048 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12301 (legacy record id), chs-m12836 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12988 (legacy record id), 1-102-42 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12301

Unique identifier UC132134

Legacy Identifier CHS-13048.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.4 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
51.8 cm × 41.2 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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