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Title
Inauguration of the Air Express Service, showing women shipping their pearls, August 31, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927-08-31
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 the Inauguration of the Air Express Service of the American Railway Express Company at Vail Field, August 31, 1927. Two women put their pearls in a safe destined to be shipped. A young man in a lightly-colored suit and a second man in a dark suit and hat lift the safe towards the plane behind them. Pilot Maurice Graham is in the cockpit at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12831
USC-2-1-1-12983 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36809
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12831
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36809.jpg
Subject
Air mail service
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Airports
American Railway Express Company
Graham, Maurice
Transportation--Air--Airports--General
Vail Field
Airport features
Time Period
1927-08-31
Place
California
City of Commerce
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36809 [Accession number]
CHS-36809 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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