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Title: "The City of Peoria" - disqualified!
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: California aeronautics photograph album : Dole Race and others, pg. 51.
Shows biplane on airfield, Oakland.
2009-0711.
James D. Dole put up prize money for first planes to cross from the mainland to Honolulu. On Aug. 26th, 1927, eight planes (Dolebirds) left Oakland for what became the Dole Air Race – Golden Eagle, Aloha, Woolaroc, Miss Doran, Oklahoma, Dallas Spirit, El Encanto, Pabco Flyer.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001415601CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Dole Air Race--Photographs
Airplane racing--California--Oakland
Biplanes--California--Oakland
Airports--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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