Image / Landing in Oakland of First Transcontinental Mail Plane, August 9, 1920 [picture]

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Title: Landing in Oakland of First Transcontinental Mail Plane, August 9, 1920 [picture]
Creator: Frost, Frank E. H. (Edmund Hill) "Jack", 1879-1947
Contributor: Davie, John L., 1850-1934
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920 August 8
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from item. Gift to the Oakland History Room by Mayor John L. Davie. Photograph taken at Durant Field following the successful coast-to-coast air mail delivery in all-metal planes designed by John M. Larsen. Figures depicted, left to right: John L. Davie (then Mayor of Oakland), Eddie Rickenbacker, John M. Larsen, Bert Acosta, J. J. Rosborough (Postmaster).
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 31 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt909nd5zq
copl_088
Subject: Postal service - United States - History - Pictorial works
Air mail service - United States - History - Pictorial works
Oakland Municipal Airport (Oakland, Calif.) - History - Pictorial works
Davie, John L., 1850-1934 - Portraits
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 - Portraits
Larsen, John M. - Portraits
Acosta, Bert - Portraits
Rosborough, J. J. - Portraits
Place: Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Durant Field (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.

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