We invite CSUDH students, faculty, staff, visiting researchers, and community members to explore primary sources in the Gerth Archives & Special Collections!
We are now accommodating in-person visitors Monday-Friday, 9:00am - 4:30pm.
LIB South 5039, 5th floor
Image of planes, balloons, and dirigibles in flight over the grandstand during the grande finale of the 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet, 1910.
Damaged plane rests on fuselage after emergency landing at Long Beach Airport. Fuel leaks out onto Runway 16L. Crash truck in background as firefighters unroll hose to prepare to spray foam over site, June 25, 1969.
Replica of 1910 Aviation Meet pennant, circa 1910.
Image of a Piper N5349T plane wedged into wall of Spanish-style home following crash, undated.
A group of aviators. Front row, from left: Hillery Beachey, Col. Frank Johnson, Glenn Curtiss, Louis Paulhan, Charles Willard, Didier Masson, Lincoln Beachey, Roy Knabenshue, Charles Hamilton, 1910.
Roy Knabenshue in flight over fields in a dirigible, 1910.