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Title
Aviator Horace Kearney flying a Curttiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912
Date Created and/or Issued
1912
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 aviator Horace Kearney flying a Curttiss biplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. Kearney's plane is high in the sky at center and is flying to the left. It is an early biplane with a pusher propeller and a tricycle undercarriage. Kearney is seated on the front of the plane. The plane is silhouetted against a cloudy sky. There are mountains visible near the bottom of the image.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m13067
USC-1-1-1-13219
USC-1-1-1-13926 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11880
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13067
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11880.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Kearney, Horace
Dominguez Air Meet of 1912
Transportation--Air--Aviation Meets (1912)
Airport features
Time Period
1912
Place
California
Dominguez Hills
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-102-24; 1-103-25 [Microfiche number]
11880 [Accession number]
CHS-11880 [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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