Image / "Bill" Erwin - pilot of "The Dallas Spirit" - August 15, 1927

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Title: "Bill" Erwin - pilot of "The Dallas Spirit" - August 15, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Plates in: California aeronautics photograph album : Dole Race and others, pg. 45.
Bust-length portrait in jacket, flyer's helmet and goggles. Image signed "Wm P. Erwin" in lower right corner.
2009-0523.
James D. Dole put up prize money for first planes to cross from the mainland to Honolulu. On Aug. 26th, 1927, eight planes (Dolebirds) left Oakland for what became the Dole Air Race – Golden Eagle, Aloha, Woolaroc, Miss Doran, Oklahoma, Dallas Spirit, El Encanto, Pabco Flyer.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001414185CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Erwin, William P.,, 1895-1927--Photographs
Dole Air Race--Photographs
Airplane racing--California--Oakland
Air pilots--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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