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Air pilots -- California -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Ronnie collection of Los Angeles aviation photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 7088
Abstract A collection of 264 early Los Angeles aviation photographs, including several of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and other pioneering pilots at the first National Air Races held in Los Angeles in September of 1928 at Mines Field (now the location of the Los Angeles International Airport). Arthur Ronnie--former Los Angeles Herald Examiner reporter and studio publicist--initially collected and identified the material in this collection. Also included are...
Dates: 1920 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1928 September 8 - 1928 September 16

USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl X. Brown collection on aviation

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0064
Abstract

This collection consists of scrapbooks and clippings chronicling the early innovations of manned flight compiled by Earl X. Brown.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1911 - 1945; 1966

Wilson Aero Corp. photograph album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7045
Content Description Photograph album with 24 photographs depicting Wilson Aero Corp.'s motion picture work. Photographs include on the set images of Dawn Patrol (1930), the comedy short Plane Crazy (1930), and Paul Sloane's War Correspondent (1932) starring Jack Holt. The album documents much of the activity of the Wilson Aero Corp. and may have functioned as a sales tool--glamourous images of film shoots, various planes, and photographs of the turret camera mount that allowed for 360 degree in-air tracking...
Dates: circa 1932