1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection

The first international aviation meet (air meet) in America was held on Dominguez Hill in 1910. Aviators from America and France, including the Louis Paulhan, Glenn Curtiss, and Roy Knabenshue, piloted their planes, balloons, and dirigibles past thousands of spectators. A group of local and aviation historians formed the 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet at Dominguez Flying Field Committee to create a comprehensive repository of materials about the 1910 meet, as well as the meets held in 1911. The Committee hosts a website that includes historical information, as well as short film clips from the first meet.

CLICK HERE to see the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field website.

The Yearbooks and Publications section contains scanned pages of all campus yearbooks. The first yearbook, Los Gitanos, was published in 1966, and future editions were published intermittently under different names through the 1990s. The Publications section also contains an online version of The Rainbow Years, a history of the university's first twenty-five years, written by Judson Grenier, historian and History Professor Emeritus at CSU Dominguez Hills.

A majority of items in this collection are photographs, slides, news clippings, and programs from the 1910 meet. Other materials include a brief history of the meet by Robert Gillingham; postcards and other aviation ephemera; and photographs, invitations, and programs from the many historical markers placed to commemorate the location of the first internaional aviation meet.

To view the photographs, choose a subject (linked below), browse the collection, or search for keywords using the box in the top right.