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Title
Agoston Haraszthy, California viticulture pioneer
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative is an image of Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869). Haraszthy is often credited with starting the California wine industry. This picture comes from the collection of G. Allan Hancock, Haraszthy's grandson through his mother, Ida Haraszthy Hancock.
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Airplane crash
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created in the Santa Maria Valley is an image of the aftermath of an airplane crash.
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Allan Hancock [right] and younger brother Bertram, around 1880
Date Created
Circa 1880
Description
Negative created around 1880 is an image of Bertram and Allan Hancock as young children. Allan Hancock was born in 1875, and Bertram in 1877. Unfortunately, Bertram died of typhoid fever in 1893.
Title
Allan Hancock and Marian Mullin Hancock, with dog
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Allan Hancock and Marian Mullin Hancock, with a dog.
Title
Allan Hancock in aviator gear
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Allan Hancock in aviator gear.
Title
Allan Hancock tying rigging aboard the Velero IV
Date Created
Circa 1950
Description
Photograph taken in the Pacific Ocean around 1950 is an image of Allan Hancock and two others on the Velero IV. Hancock started the construction of Velero IV as a dedicated marine research vessel for the University of Southern California as soon as possible after World War II. National Iron Works in San Diego completed construction in 1948, and she became one of the most advanced research vessels of her time. She was actively involved in research through 1985, ranging from Bodega Bay, California all the way south to Costa Rica. She is currently operated as a charter vessel by Velero IV Charters, LLC, in Edmonds, Washington. The pneumatic A-frame mounted aft, visible here, could be used to haul ocean-bottom samples onto graduated mesh sorting screens. Identifier on back of photo: 6833 8C-3.
Title
Allan Hancock, with cello
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Allan Hancock with a cello. Hancock played cello in various orchestras and small ensembles, in both Los Angeles and Santa Maria.
Title
Arriving cadets claiming their baggage, Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, California is an image of cadets claiming their baggage after being dropped off by train. Buildings in immediate background are barracks.
Title
Benthoscope
Date Created
Circa 1949
Description
Photograph taken in the Pacific Ocean off California around 1949 is an image of the Benthoscope, a manned deep-sea diving vessel. Otis Barton designed the Benthoscope, a 7,000 pound steel sphere, to be able to safely carry an observer as deep as 6,500 feet beneath the ocean. He had hoped to at least double the record of 3,028 feet set by Dr. William Beebe in 1934. The Benthoscope was tested and modified at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, and its record-breaking dive in 1949 was carried out in cooperation with the Allan Hancock Foundation's research vessel, Velero IV. Unfortunately, the lights failed at 4,500 feet, and Barton decided not to press on to his goal. The lessons learned from this dive led to the development of the Benthograph automated deep-sea camera.
Title
Bertram Deane Hancock (1902-1925)
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative is an image of Bertram Deane Hancock, son of G. Allan Hancock. Bertram Hancock was killed in the collapse of the Arlington Hotel in Santa Barbara due to the earthquake of June 29, 1925. He and his father had stopped for the night en route to Santa Maria from Los Angeles.
Title
C.L. Preisker, General Thomas M. Robins, Capt. G. Allan Hancock, and unknown man (left to right)
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of C.L. Preisker, General Thomas M. Robins, Capt. G. Allan Hancock, and an unknown man.
Title
Cadet checking in a parachute, Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, California is an image of a cadet checking in a parachute.
Title
Cadets marching at Hancock Field
Date Created
[1940s]
Description
Photographic negatives of cadets marching at Hancock field. After the United States entered World War Two, the civilian Hancock College of Aeronautics was converted to a military flight training school.
Title
Cadets marching at Hancock Field
Date Created
[1940s]
Description
Photographic negatives of cadets marching at Hancock field. After the United States entered World War Two, the civilian Hancock College of Aeronautics was converted to a military flight training school.
Title
Cadets marching at Hancock Field
Date Created
[1940s]
Description
Photographic negatives of cadets marching at Hancock field. After the United States entered World War Two, the civilian Hancock College of Aeronautics was converted to a military flight training school.
Title
Cadets marching at Hancock Field
Date Created
[1940s]
Description
Photographic negatives of cadets marching at Hancock field. After the United States entered World War Two, the civilian Hancock College of Aeronautics was converted to a military flight training school.
Title
Cadets posing with PT-13 Stearman trainer
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, California is an image of cadets posing with a training aircraft. The Stearman was the primary aircraft used for military flight training at Hancock Field.
Title
Cadets talking in the ready room, with pin-up doodle, Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria, California is an image of flight school cadets in the ready room, with a doodle of a pin-up on the chalkboard. Text on chalkboard: "Do not erase!", "Life at Santa Maria!!!!", "Sat. Nites Target".
Title
Cadets with their flight instructor assignments, Hancock Field
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock Field in Santa Maria, California is an image of cadets socializing in between instruction sessions at the Hancock College of Aeronautics. Flight instructor assignments can be see on the wall behind them.
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Cafeteria at Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, California is an image of cadets eating in the cafeteria.
Title
Capt. G. Allan Hancock, Chairman C.L. Preisker, General Thomas M. Robins
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of G. Allan Hancock, C.L. Preisker, and General Thomas M. Robins.
Title
Flight instructors posing in front of a training aircraft, Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at the Hancock College of Aeronautics is an image of a group of Army Air Force flight instructors posing in front of a training aircraft.
Title
G. Allan Hancock
Date Created
Circa 1890s
Description
Negative is an image of G. Allan Hancock, probably taken during the 1890s.
Title
G. Allan Hancock
Date Created
Circa 1920
Description
Photograph taken at Witzel Studios in Los Angeles, California around 1920 is an image of G. Allan Hancock.
Title
G. Allan Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of G. Allan Hancock. Hand-colored print produced from a black and white photograph.
Title
G. Allan Hancock and Dr. Maurice Nelles, with benthograph
Date Created
5/26/1950
Description
Photograph is an image of G. Allan Hancock and research engineer Dr. Maurice Nelles with the benthograph, an automated camera for deep-sea exploration. This photo was taken on May 26, 1950, probably at Hancock Field in Santa Maria, California, where the benthograph was built. Description on back of photo: "Capt. Allan Hancock, left, and Dr. Maurice Nelles with S.C.'s new benthograph designed for deep sea research. It will be used with the marine laboratory ship, Velero IV. Captain Hancock, director of the Allan Hancock Foundation and skipper of the Velero IV, holds the electrically operated motion picture camera designed for use within the benthograph. UNIVERSITY OF SO. CALIF., ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION, MARINE LABORATORY SHIP VELERO IV, BENTHOGRAPH (No 12) MAY 26, 1950."
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G. Allan Hancock and Dr. Maurice Nelles, with benthograph
Date Created
Circa 1950
Description
Photograph is an image of G. Allan Hancock and research engineer Dr. Maurice Nelles with the benthograph, an automated camera for deep-sea exploration. This photo was probably taken in 1950 at Hancock Field in Santa Maria, California, where the benthograph was built. The benthograph was inspired by an earlier attempt with a manned diving vessel called a benthoscope, which broke a record for manned deep diving but failed to produce useful photographs. Hancock commissioned Dr. Nelles to produce an automated camera that could operate at great depths. The benthograph was tested in 1950 and produced hundreds of deep-sea photographs before being lost off Catalina in 1952.
Title
G. Allan Hancock driving his 1900 Milwaukee Steam Runabout
Date Created
Circa 1900
Description
Negative created in Los Angeles, California around 1900 is an image of G. Allan Hancock and a friend driving in a 1900 Milwaukee Steam Runabout. Hancock owned one of the first automobiles in Los Angeles. The Milwaukee Steam Automobile Company was founded in 1899, but closed in 1902.
Title
G. Allan Hancock, with benthograph camera
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph taken off the California Coast, probably aboard the Velero IV, around 1950 is an image of G. Allan Hancock holding the camera from the benthograph. The benthograph was inspired by an earlier attempt with a manned diving vessel called a benthoscope, which broke a record for manned deep diving but failed to produce useful photographs. Hancock commissioned Dr. Nelles to produce an automated camera that could operate at great depths. The benthograph was tested in 1950 and produced hundreds of deep-sea photographs before being lost off Catalina in 1952.
Title
Genevieve Deane Mullen
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative is an image of Genevieve Deane Mullen, first wife of G. Allan Hancock.
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Graduation dance for Hancock College of Aeronautics cadets, 1943
Date Created
1943
Description
Negative created in Santa Maria, California in 1943 is an image of a graduation dance for cadets from Hancock College of Aeronautics. Banners in the room read, "Victory in 1943", and "43-K". A dance was held at the Cadet Club for each graduating class from Hancock College of Aeronautics. "43-K" indicates the 11th class to graduate during 1943.
Title
Hancock College of Aeronautics cadet singing and playing the piano
Date Created
undated
Description
Created in Santa Maria, California is an image of a Hancock College of Aeronautics cadet singing and playing the piano, with an audience. The location is unknown--possibly Cadets Club, possibly Hancock Field Assembly Hall, possibly U.S.O. building (former Carnegie Library).
Title
Hancock College of Aeronautics cadets at a bar
Date Created
between 1942 and 1944
Description
Negative created in Santa Maria, California between 1942 and 1944 is an image of cadets from the Hancock College of Aeronautics at a local bar, possibly at the Cadets Club. Posters on the wall: "Don't let the shadow touch them", U.S. G.P.O. 1942-O-462211 and "ENEMY EARS are listening", U.S. G.P.O. 1942-O-480485.
Title
Hancock Ensemble
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph taken in Los Angeles is an image of a nine-piece string ensemble, including Allan Hancock on cello. "Hancock Ensemble" barely visible on original, may have been intentionally removed. Printed on back: "Order 1 copper half-tone, 133-line screen 7 3/8 x 3 5/8, "Dick" Whittington Photography phone REpublic [sic] 5148, 3845 Wisconsin St. Los Angeles, Photo # 012-6-3"
Title
Hancock Field
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created in Santa Maria, California is an image of the hangars, outbuildings, taxiway and runway of Hancock Field.
Title
Ida Haraszthy Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative is an image of Ida Haraszthy Hancock, mother of G. Allan Hancock and daughter of Agostin Haraszthy, a Hungarian-American pioneer of the California wine industry.
Title
Ida Haraszthy Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photographic negative of Ida Haraszthy Hancock, mother of G. Allan Hancock and daughter of Agostin Haraszthy, a Hungarian-American pioneer of the California wine industry.
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Instructor and cadet using a Link Trainer, Hancock College of Aeronautics
Date Created
undated
Description
Negative created at Hancock Field in Santa Maria, California is an image of an instructor and a cadet using a Link Trainer. Link Trainers were early analog flight simulators built by Link Aviation Devices, for the purpose of training pilots to fly by instruments alone. The trainers moved in response to the pilot's controls, and gave feedback through an instrument panel. The canopy could be used to simulate blind flying. Instructors had access to real-time data from the trainer, and could communicate with the pilot via headphones. Because most Link Trainers were painted blue with yellow control surfaces, they were also called "blue boxes".
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Marian Mullin Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph taken in Hollywood, California is an image of Marian Mullin Hancock, wife of G. Allan Hancock. Marian Mullin Hancock was trustee of her husband's estate after his death in 1965, and continued many of his philantropic efforts. She was his third wife--he was married to Genevieve Deane Mullen from 1901 until her death in 1936, and he was briefly married to Helen Leaf Morgan in 1939. Marian Mullin and G. Allan Hancock were married at Mission Santa Ines in 1946.
Title
Marian Mullin Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Marian Mullin Hancock, wife of G. Allan Hancock. Marian Mullin Hancock was trustee of her husband's estate after his death in 1965, and continued many of his philantropic efforts. She was his third wife--he was married to Genevieve Deane Mullen from 1901 until her death in 1936, and he was briefly married to Helen Leaf Morgan in 1939. Marian Mullin and G. Allan Hancock were married at Mission Santa Ines in 1946.
Title
Marian Mullin Hancock
Date Created
Circa 1930s
Description
Photograph probably taken in the 1930s is an image of Marian Mullin Hancock, wife of G. Allan Hancock. Marian Mullin Hancock was trustee of her husband's estate after his death in 1965, and continued many of his philantropic efforts. She was his third wife--he was married to Genevieve Deane Mullen from 1901 until her death in 1936, and he was briefly married to Helen Leaf Morgan in 1939. Marian Mullin and G. Allan Hancock were married at Mission Santa Ines in 1946.
Title
Marian Mullin Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Marian Mullin Hancock, wife of G. Allan Hancock. Marian Mullin Hancock was trustee of her husband's estate after his death in 1965, and continued many of his philantropic efforts. She was his third wife--he was married to Genevieve Deane Mullen from 1901 until her death in 1936, and he was briefly married to Helen Leaf Morgan in 1939. Marian Mullin and G. Allan Hancock were married at Mission Santa Ines in 1946. Hand-colored print produced from a black and white photograph.
Title
Marian Mullin Hancock and Allan Hancock
Date Created
undated
Description
Photograph is an image of Marian Mullin Hancock and Allan Hancock.
Title
Otis Barton in the Benthoscope, with Dr. Maurice Nelles
Date Created
1949
Description
Photograph taken off Santa Cruz Island, California in 1949 is an image of Otis Barton inside the Benthoscope, talking with Dr. Maurice Nelles. Barton designed the Benthoscope, a 7,000 pound steel sphere, to be able to safely carry an observer as deep as 6,500 feet beneath the ocean. He had hoped to at least double the record of 3,028 feet set by Dr. William Beebe in 1934. The Benthoscope was tested and modified at Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, and its record-breaking dive in 1949 was carried out in cooperation with the Allan Hancock Foundation's research vessel, Velero IV. Unfortunately, the lights failed at 4,500 feet, and Barton decided not to press on to his goal. The lessons learned from this dive led to the development of the Benthograph automated deep-sea camera.
Title
Parade spectators at Hancock Field
Date Created
[1940s]
Description
Spectators watch as cadets march at Hancock Field.
Title
Physical training at Hancock Field
Date Created
between 1942 and 1945
Description
Negative created at Hancock Field in Santa Maria sometime between 1942 and 1945 is an image of an instructor leading cadets in physical training.
Title
Rosemary Farms aerial view
Date Created
[1963]
Description
Photograph taken at Santa Maria, California on [1963] is an image of Rosemary Farms seen from the air.
Title
Rosemary Hancock and her daughter, Patty
Date Created
1931
Description
Photograph is an image of Rosemary Hancock and her daughter, Patricia Zeiser, probably taken at the launching of Velero III in Long Beach, 1931. Printed on back of photo: "Launching Rosemary and Patty". Allan Hancock named Rosemary Farms in Santa Maria after his daughter.
Title
Ruins of Arlington Hotel after 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake
Date Created
6/29/1925
Description
Negative created at Santa Barbara, California on 06/29/1925 is an image of the ruins of the Arlington Hotel. Photo from the collection of G. Allan Hancock, whose 22 year old son Bertram was killed in the hotel's collapse. Hancock survived, but was severely injured.
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