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Title
Aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott at the controls of her plane 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 aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott at the controls of her plane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. Scott is seated in her plane at center, facing to the right. She is holding a steering wheel in her gloved hands. She is wearing leather boots, a thick hooded jacket and goggles. Her plane is made of wood and the wing is covered with canvas. There is a single wheel in the foreground at right, and the plane's engine is visible at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13343
USC-1-1-1-13496 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11681
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13343
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11681.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Air pilots
Women air pilots
Scott, Blanch
Dominguez Air Meet
Transportation--Air--People in aviation
Airport features
Time Period
1912
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-90-588; 1-102- [Microfiche number]
11681 [Accession number]
CHS-11681 [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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