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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
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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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