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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Ezra Meeker arrives in Los Angeles area by oxcart to witness first great airmeet, 1910
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Ezra Meeker arrives in Los Angeles area by oxcart to witness first great airmeet, 1910
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Description
Photograph of the picturesque veteran of covered wagon days, Ezra Meeker, on his arrival from New York by oxcart, to witness the first great airmeet in the United States in 1910 at Dominguez Field near Los Angeles. Two airplanes are flying overhead. Several other people are in the image including one in the wagon seat and one on a horse behind the wagon. This airmeet created an idea in Meeker's mind that persisted for twenty years which he realized a short time before he died, when he made an airplane flight over the covered wagon trail he covered many years before. Meeker was the author of "Seventy Years Progress in the State of Washington". Writing legible on the side of Meeker's wagon: "Ox team book of 48 pages, 23 illustrations by Ezra Meeker, 25[?] cloth bound, 50[?] paper cover; The old Oregon Trail monument expedition left Puyallup near Tacoma [...] Jan. 29th 1906, arrived in Washington[?] Nov. 29th 1907, distance 3650 miles; [...], series B, 16 postcards"....; Photoprint reads: "The old and the new in transportation, 1912".
Asset Metadata
Title
Ezra Meeker arrives in Los Angeles area by oxcart to witness first great airmeet, 1910
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Air pilots
(lcsh),
Airplanes
(lcsh),
Dominguez Air Meet
(subject),
Draft animals
(lcsh),
Meeker, Ezra
(subject),
Ox driving
(lcsh),
Transportation -- Air -- People in aviation
(file heading),
Transportation -- Draft -- General
(file heading),
transportation features
(adlf),
Wagons
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1910
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1910
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
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-m11774
Identifier
CHS-105 (
call number
), CHS-105 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-11185 (
legacy record id
), chs-m11774 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-11925 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13527 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
), 105 (
unidentified no.
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
11185
Unique identifier
UC118554
Legacy Identifier
CHS-105.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.5 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 36.0 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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