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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an Indian girl and a man in the cockpit of an airplane at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. The man is at right and is handling the controls of the Wright biplane. Both his hands are on long levers and he is wearing dark clothes and a dark cap. The Indian woman is at center and is wearing traditional Indian clothing, including a headband. Another man is standing on the ground in the foreground with his back to the camera. There is a fuel tank mounted on the wooden frame of the aircraft at left, and a box labeled "Polarine" connected to the engine with a hose. Photoprint reads: "Indian girl wants to learn to fly".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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