Title:
Landing in Oakland of First Transcontinental Mail Plane, August 9, 1920 [picture].
Creator:
Frost, Frank E. H. (Edmund Hill) "Jack", 1879-1947.
Subject:
Postal service - United States - History - Pictorial works.
Air mail service - United
States - History - Pictorial works.
Oakland Municipal Airport (Oakland, Calif.) - History - Pictorial works.
Davie, John
L., 1850-1934 - Portraits.
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 - Portraits.
Larsen, John M. -
Portraits.
Acosta, Bert - Portraits.
Rosborough, J. J. - Portraits.
Description:
Title from item. Gift to the Oakland History Room by Mayor John L. Davie.
Photograph taken at Durant Field following the successful coast-to-coast air mail delivery in
all-metal planes designed by John M. Larsen. Figures depicted, left to right: John L. Davie
(then Mayor of Oakland), Eddie Rickenbacker, John M. Larsen, Bert Acosta, J. J. Rosborough
(Postmaster).
Publisher:
Oakland Public Library
Contributor:
Davie, John L., 1850-1934.
Date:
1920 August 8
Type:
image
Format:
1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 31 cm.
Identifier:
copl_088
Coverage:
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works. ; Durant Field (Oakland, Calif.) -
Pictorial works.
Rights:
public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.