Woman demonstrating the "Spitz flight recorder" at the United Airport in Burbank, July 1937

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Photograph of a woman demonstrating the "Spitz flight recorder" at the United Airport in Burbank, July 1937. The woman is seated on a counter at left and is gesturing towards an open electronic device at center. The woman is wearing a light-colored sweater and dark skirt and has light-colored hair. Several guages and switches can be seen on the machine at right.

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Title Woman demonstrating the "Spitz flight recorder" at the United Airport in Burbank, July 1937

Subject Aeronautical instruments (lcsh), Aeronautics (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Flight recorders (lcsh), Transportation -- Air -- Airports -- General (file heading), United Air Terminal (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1937-07-01

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1937-07-01

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-m12880

Identifier 36477 (accession number), CHS-36477 (call number), CHS-36477 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12344 (legacy record id), chs-m12880 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-13032 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12344

Unique identifier UC132649

Legacy Identifier CHS-36477.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 18.9 in at 300dpi
34.4 cm × 48.1 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

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