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Title	Close-up of a woman working at the Lear Corporation, September 1950
Description	Photograph of a close-up of a woman working at the Lear Corporation, September 1950. A woman appears at right, looking through what appears to be a large magnifying lens, where her hand can be seen adjusting a small device.; Photoprint reads: "Lear, Inc. 3171 S. Bundy Drive, Santa Monica, California. Hair line precision to tolerances of a millionth of an ince helps add to safer, more accurate aircraft flying. This photo shows a Lear employee, with the help of a fixed magnifying glass, slotting a commutator, which will later be used as an intergated part of a complete aircraft automatic stabilization system. Such a system automatically flies the airplane instantaneously compensating for any deviation in the airplane attitude" as well as "Photo number 5".
Subject	Lear Corporation
Subject (adlf)	industrial sites
Subject (file heading)	Industry -- Aeronautics
Subject (lcsh)	Aeronautics Aircraft industry Airplanes Airplane factories Engineering
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Downey; Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1950-09-16
Photographer	Hullibarger's Photography
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1950-09-16
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	40586
Call number	CHS-40586
Microfiche number	84-1-1303
Legacy record ID	chs-m10947; USC-2-1-1-11098
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-40586
Archival file	chs_Volume104/CHS-40586.tiff

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