Image / Ernie Smith, "City of Oakland," 1928

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Title: Ernie Smith, "City of Oakland," 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Title from caption on verso.
Shows Ernie Smith on his plane.
2012-1034.
Ernest L. Smith and Emory Bronte flew a Travel Air 5000 high-winged monoplane, City of Oakland, from Bay Farm Island, San Francisco to Molokai in July of 1927, just prior to the Dole Race. Became the first civilians to make the flight.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001472775CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Smith, Ernest L.--Photographs
Monoplanes--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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