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[Duck Air Services pilot photograph album].
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[Duck Air Services pilot photograph album]Abstract:
Photograph album compiled by pilot working for Duck Air Services flying school, based at the Oakland Municipal Airport. Snapshots
document his fellow pilots, their planes and other aircraft, and aerial views of the San Francisco Bay Area and cloud formations.
Various types of aircraft are depicted -- e.g. the flying helium-filled aircraft carrier U.S.S. Akron, Boeing 247, Vultee
1-A Transport, Beechcraft BL 17, Douglass O 35, Curtiss-Diamond 1910, Boeing 95 mail plane. Ground views are taken at various
airports in the region, including Oakland Municipal Airport, Mills Field in San Francisco, and an airfield at Sunnyvale. Most
pilots are identified only by humorous nicknames (e.g. "Buzz the fan dancer", "Rubinoff the city slicker", "The Dutch ace",
"Bogey the goon").
Date:
1932 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDuck Air Service (Oakland, Calif.) -- Photographs
Oakland Municipal Airport (Calif.) -- Photographs
Airplanes -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Air pilots -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Airports -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer/compiler's name written inside front cover: "Buzzy".
Most leaves are annotated with hand-written captions, some dated.
Duck Air Services pilot photograph album, BANC PIC 2022.027, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Caroliniana ; 2021.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Aerial photographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 75 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 14 x 19 cm
Language:
English