California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929

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Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929

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Photograph of the Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929. A small, dark plane with a star on its back stands in a dusty field on the right while a group of men in suits and hats stand to the right. Long, lightly-colored buildings of the plant stand in the background on the left while a wide, arched hangar stands on the right. A row of electrical lines stands between the factory buildings and the hangar and continues out of view towards the mountains in the distance.

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Title Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Airplane factories (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), Engineering (lcsh), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- Plants -- Installations (file heading), Lockheed Corporation (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Burbank (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1929-01-27

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1929-01-27

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10950

Identifier 35508 (accession number), CHS-35508 (call number), CHS-35508 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18878 (legacy record id), chs-m10950 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11101 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18878

Unique identifier UC136014

Legacy Identifier CHS-35508.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.3 cm × 33.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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