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Lump of ice flying over landscape: "Trip number five-Calling Newark Airport-I'm afraid ice is forming on our wings!", Circa 1925.

 Item — Box: 9, Item: 5
Identifier: Subseries 2.3:

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

The Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez Hills in January 1910 is represented by two photographs, one a composite of airplanes over the stadium, the other of French aviator Louis Paulhan over the stadium. The collection also contains several photographic postcards of the San Francisco Air Meet, January 1911, the gift of B. W. Cohoon, of Pomona, CA; these postcards depict Philip Parmalee in his Wright Standard, Hubert Latham and his "Antoinette", and a Farman biplane. Two photographic postcards depict the Fokker C-2 "America", in which Richard Byrd, Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen, and George Noville flew from New York to France in 1929, in the water at Ver-sur-Mer, at the end of the flight. The collection includes a large-scale reproduction of a photograph purportedly depicting a German World War I flyer falling from his burning airplane, one of a series of photographs first exhibited in 1931 by a "Mrs. Cockburn-Lange" as the work of an unidentified RAF officer; these images were exposed as forgeries in Edwards Park, "The greatest aerial warfare photos go down in flames," Smithsonian, 15, no. 10 (January 1985), 102-110. The Society of British Aerospace Companies' airshow at Radlett, Hertfordshire, in 1946-the predecessor to the Farnborough Air Show-is represented by 38 photographs; the quality of the images suggests that they were taken by an amateur. The collection also contains several photographs from World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, NV, April 1959, including an aerial view of Nellis Air Force Base, and images of a 1910 Bleriot monoplane, a World War I Sopwith F1 Camel, and a 1918 German Pfalz D12.

Dates

  • Creation: Circa 1925.

Creator

Access

The collection is open to researchers when Special Collections is open, and at other times by appointment. There are no access restrictions.

Extent

From the Collection: 16.25 Linear Feet ( (13 archive boxes, 6 archive half-boxes, 8 clam-shell boxes, 3 shoe boxes, 15 oversize print boxes))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

1 photograph : 14 x 10 in. [mounted].

Repository Details

Part of the 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library Repository

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