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Title
View of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, with airborne plane, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the airfield at the Dominguez Hills Airmeet, ca.1910. W.R. Brookins is shown airborne in his Wright Model A biplane, which is visible in the left sky as it executes a turn. Two other biplanes are visible on the ground. A group of five people can be seen standing around the plane on the left, while a lone pilot stands near the plane on the right. In the foreground at the center of the picture, two people are walking towards the grounded planes. On the horizon, two more small groups of people can be seen.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13054
USC-1-1-1-13206 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9600
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13054
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9600.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Dominguez Air Meet of 1910
Transportation--Air--Aviation Meets--Dominguez Air Show--1910
Airport features
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
California
Dominguez Hills
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-102-22; 1-103-22 [Microfiche number]
9600 [Accession number]
CHS-9600 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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