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Title: Culver City Airport formal opening, Culver City. May 9, 1930
Creator: Huddleston, F. M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930-05-09
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A panoramic view of the formal opening of the Culver City Airport. A group of female aviators, members of the Ninety-Nines, stand in a row, wearing coveralls, goggles, and other flight attire, and there are several airplanes parked on the left. The airport was owned and operated by Miss Margaret Perry. There is a hangar on the right, and a crowd of people stand between it and the aviatrixes. Writing in white in the bottom right corner reads "Formal Opening Culver City Airport ; May 9th, 1930 ; Miss. Margaret Perry. Owner & Operator ; Photo by ; F.M. Huddleston."
Type: Image
Format: image/jp2
Extent: 26 x 159 cm (10 x 63 in)
Identifier: 167786
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/4458
Subject: Women air pilots
Ninety-Nines (Organization)
Airports--California--Culver City
Airplanes--California--Photographs
Crowds
Hangars
Events--California--Culver City. (lctgm)
Panoramas--California--Culver City--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Place: Culver City (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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