California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Aerial view looking southeast on crowds at Sid Chaplin's airport at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 1920

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Aerial view looking southeast on crowds at Sid Chaplin's airport at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 1920

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Photograph of an aerial view looking southeast on crowds at Sid Chaplin's airport at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 1920. Dozens of cars are parked in rows in the foreground, with several airplanes parked behind them in the more open field, around which crowds of people move about. A vendor tent is visible farther up the image, near more parked cars. A billboard to the left reads "Racine Tires". Sid Chaplin, the owner, was also Charlie Chaplin's brother. The airport later came under the ownership of Emery H. Rogers.

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Title Aerial view looking southeast on crowds at Sid Chaplin's airport at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 1920

Subject Airplanes (lcsh), airport features (adlf), Airports (lcsh), Chaplin, Sid (subject), Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3) (file heading), Rogers, Emery H. (subject), Sid Chaplin's Airport (subject), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Fairfax Avenue (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1920

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-m429

Identifier 7462 (accession number), CHS-7462 (call number), CHS-7462 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5626 (legacy record id), chs-m429 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-426 (legacy record id), 1-12-21 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5626

Unique identifier UC119424

Legacy Identifier CHS-7462.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 37.1 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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