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Title
Aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920
Date Created and/or Issued
1920
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 an aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue looking north during and aviation fair, Los Angeles, 1920. Automobile are parked off the roads at the fringes of the open fields that skirt them. Oil fields are visible along with mountains in the background, while at center, people crowd around a collection of airplanes that are situated next to small vendor booths. In a field in the left background, a building shows a sign which reads "Mercury Aviation Company".
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegatives, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 10 x13 cm., 13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m416
USC-1-1-1-414 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7461
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m416
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7461.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Streets--Wilshire Boulevard (1 of 3)
Sid Chaplin Airport
Streets
Airports
Oil wells
Airport features
Time Period
1920
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard
Fairfax Avenue
Source
1-12-20 [Microfiche number]
7461 [Accession number]
CHS-7461 [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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