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Title
Two biplanes at Vail Field, ca.1929
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1929
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 two biplanes at Vail Field, ca.1929. In the center foreground, a small Western Air Express biplane used by the U.S. Air Mail is visible facing right. In the background, a set of mobile stairs is standing close to a second biplane. The rest of the image appears to be open field, with buildings indistinctly visible along the horizon.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5237
USC-2-1-1-5344 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36504
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5237
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36504.jpg
Subject
Airplanes
Airports
Transportation
Transportation--Air--Burbank Glendale Airport
Industry--Aeronautics--General
Vail Field
Airport features
Time Period
circa 1929
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36504 [Accession number]
CHS-36504 [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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