oakland airport

22-Jan-72

The typewritten notation attached to the photo reads "TERMINAL SOUND STAGE--Giant floodlights, cameras, production people and technicians filled various portions of the Oakland Airport Terminal...

28-Jun-91

Tribune captions on the back, June 29, 1991- "Passengers line up at America West terminal at Oakland airport as usual." Sep. 16, 1991- "The software doesn't fly with many airlines, which, like...

15-Mar-74

Photo is stamped from Vano Photograph located on Sutter in San Francisco. Photo is of a World Airways passenger jet with passengers disembarking. Several passengers, carrying small pieces of...

12-Jan-35

Tribune caption on the back, May 21, 1967-- "Amelia Earhart gts roses after flying 'little red bus' from Honolulu to Oakland, Jan. 12, 1935." Photo shows Earhart just emerging from her plane....

18-Feb-28

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport. Photo is an aerial view of the area where the airport is located. Two hangars and a smaller building are all that exists of the airport buildings. The...

c. 1935

Handwritten on the back, "Oak. Municipal Airport. general 1940." Photo is an aerial view of the airport showing several buildings and hangars. A few cars parked in the lot and a few planes on...

7-Feb-30

Handwritten on the back, "Oak. Airport." Photo is a low level aerial view of the airport looking down toward the airport buildings. On one side of the buildings is the parking lot and on the...

9-Nov-33

Tribune caption on the back, Nov. 9, 1933-- "Diagrams superimposed on this air photo of Oakland Municipal airport show how the blind landing, radio-operated system being installed jointly by the...

18-Oct-28

Handwritten on the back of the photo "Oakland Airport compass swinging table. used 10-18-28." Photo shows a biplane parked on the runway at the Oakland Airport. Two men dressed in pilots...

26-Feb-36

Handwritten on the back of the photo "2/26/36 Ur. Book, Par II pg 9. Oak. Munc. Airport. 59 Picas Yearbook #1898." Photo shows a U.S. Navy biplane parked on the tarmac at the Oakland Airport....

c. 1935

Photo shows an aerial view of the Oakland Airport and the surrounding area. In the distance behind the airport is downtown Oakland.

1935

Typed paper attached to the back, "Caption- CHINA CLIPPER: another historic East Bay flight took place on November 22, 1935, when Pan American Airlines' China clipper took off from the Oakland...

10-Feb-30

Handwritten on the back of the photo "Oak. Airport." Photo is a very blurry shot of the Oakland Airport and the surrounding area. The airport consists of five hangars and two smaller buildings...

1928

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "Maddux Air Lines 1928, 3776." Photo shows a line of men standing in front of two large airplanes. The men are either pilots or investors in the company....

28-May-38

Handwritten on the back in red pencil, "Aircraft Race Pacific International Air Races." Photo shows a car with a wood platform built on the roof driving along with an airplane flying above it.

21-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 21, 1938-- "John Hayes (left), president of the Advertising Club of Oakland, Harry Bell (center), chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce aviation committee,...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "As the Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland Advertising Club joined at luncheon yesterday, aviators from far and near gathered to...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "As the Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland Advertising Club joined at luncheon yesterday, aviators from far and near gathered to...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "Ten minutes after the upper left photo was taken, the steel pylon buckled at the arrow and plunged the two men shown on the top 80 feet to the ground...

31-Mar-38

Typed paper attached to the back, "OFFICIALS MAP AIR RACE COURSE. Ground work for the first annual Pacific International Air Races to be held May 28-30 at the Oakland Municipal Airport, had been...

1929

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "Stinson monoplane of Century Pacific Air Lines, Oak-L.A. at Oak airport." Photo shows the plane parked on the runway, three men standing on the far side of...

5-Jun-68

Handwritten on the back, "Dr. Ted Schuster, San Rafael dentist, in home built Smith mini-plane, member of Experimental Aircraft Association which will exhibit at Oakland Recreation Dept. Hobby...

6-Mar-28

Typed paper glued to the back, "THE FAIRCHILD CABIN MONOPLANE, which is being now used by Fairchild Aerial Surveys for aerial mapping work. From this type of plane the accompanying obliques of...

3-Feb-30

Handwritten on the back, "New Vance Breese mail plane." Photo shows the monoplane parked in front of a hanger. The siding under the wings is corugated metal and the rest of the plane appears to...

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