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Title
Parachutist dropping from a balloon at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912
Date Created and/or Issued
1912
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 parachutist dropping from a balloon at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. The round balloon is at center and is spewing dark smoke. The parachutist is seen directly below the balloon at center. A small biplane is in the air at right and is flying to the left. A large crowd is on the ground at center and the people are gathered near their early-model automobiles as they watch the spectacle overhead.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13082
USC-1-1-1-13234 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11706
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13082
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11706.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Dominguez Air Meet of 1912
Transportation--Air--Aviation Meets--Dominguez Air Show--#2 (1912)
Airport features
Time Period
1912
Place
California
Dominguez Hills
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-102- [Microfiche number]
11706 [Accession number]
CHS-11706 [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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