DESCRIPTIVE DATA



The following statistics were derived from the General Catalog of the Fairchild Collection at Whittier College and provide a good overview of the materials held in the Collection. All values are estimations and subject to change as additional flights are indexed and prints and negatives are added to the Collection. Percent values listed are based on an estimated total of 2672 flights in the Collection.

DATE OF FLIGHTS

The Fairchild Collection is most valuable because of the age of its photographs. The following list shows the distribution of flights by decade.

Years No. of
Flights		 Percent of
Collection
1927-1929 133 5%
1930-1939 487 18%
1940-1949 630 24%
1950-1959 1248 47%
1960-1966 174 6%


COVERAGE IN CALIFORNIA

This listing is the number of flights that cover parts of the indicated counties. Many flights cover parts of more than one county.

County No. of
Flights		 County No. of
Flights		 County No. of
Flights		 County No. of
Flights
Alameda 9 Kings 22 Placer 1 Sierra 1
Alpine 2 Lake 1 Plumas 3 Siskiyou 6
Amador 6 Lassen 5 Riverside 88 Solano 11
Butte 10 Los Angeles 544 Sacramento 15 Sonoma 3
Calaveras 7 Madera 5 San Benito 8 Stanislaus 4
Colusa 6 Marin 10 San Bernardino 124 Sutter 5
Contra Costa 18 Mariposa 7 San Diego 69 Tehama 4
Del Norte 1 Mendocino 1 San Francisco 10 Trinity 1
El Dorado 3 Merced 3 San Joaquin 7 Tulare 19
Fresno 28 Modoc 3 San Luis Obispo 41 Tuolumne 4
Glenn 8 Mono 4 San Mateo 27 Ventura 119
Humboldt 6 Monterey 40 Santa Barbara 96 Yolo 3
Imperial 25 Napa 2 Santa Clara 31 Yuba 6
Inyo 14 Nevada 3 Santa Cruz 10    
Kern 95 Orange 103 Shasta 1    


COVERAGE BY STATE

This listing is the number of flights that cover portions of the indicated states. Many flights cover parts of more than one state.
State No. of
Flights		 State No. of
Flights		 State No. of
Flights
Alabama 28 Louisiana 5 Ohio 11
Alaska 12 Maine 2 Oklahoma 5
Arizona 115 Maryland 5 Oregon 22
Arkansas 2 Massachusetts 63 Pennsylvania 3
California 1508 Michigan 2 Rhode Island 3
Colorado 10 Minnesota 5 South Carolina 2
Connecticut 6 Mississippi 5 South Dakota 6
Delaware 0 Missouri 10 Tennessee 17
Florida 6 Montana 12 Texas 26
Georgia 3 Nebraska 2 Utah 17
Hawaii 0 Nevada 58 Vermont 4
Idaho 12 New Hampshire 4 Virginia 3
Illinois 18 New Jersey 8 Washington 26
Indiana 8 New Mexico 29 West Virginia 4
Iowa 3 New York 28 Wisconsin 33
Kansas 3 North Carolina 4 Wyoming 20
Kentucky 7 North Dakota 9    


COVERAGE BY COUNTRY

Although most of the photography in the Collection covers areas in the United States, scattered coverage of several other countries is also available. The following list shows the number of flights that cover the indicated countries.



Country No. of
Flights		 Country No. of
Flights
Afghanistan 3 Jamaica 2
Argentina 1 Jordan 1
Brazil 1 Laos 1
Cambodia 2 Libya 5
Canada 6 Mexico 16
Chile 2 Morocco 1
China 1 Pakistan 1
Colombia 3 Panama 4
Cyprus 1 Spain 1
Ecuador 1 Sudan 1
Ethiopia 1 Thailand 2
Egypt 1 Venezuela 2
Iran 1 Viet Nam 1
Indonesia 3 Western Sahara 2


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Background photo: Port of Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA - 1947