California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Interior of the Douglas Company's Santa Monica Plant, showing wing sections for bombers, ca.1940

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Interior of the Douglas Company's Santa Monica Plant, showing wing sections for bombers, ca.1940

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Photograph of the interior of the Douglas Company's Santa Monica Plant, showing wing sections for bombers, ca.1940. Several men gather around a line of plane wings, with one man sticking his head into a hole (for bombing purposes?) in the first wing. Each wing is set atop a platform made of wood and metal, and a man crouches by a device on the floor propped against one of these, at left. A path lined with stripes of paint appears at right, and the lights from lamps shine overhead.; Photoprint reads: "Wing sections for swift and formidable attack-bombers moving down production lines of the Douglas Company's huge Santa Monica plant".

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Title Interior of the Douglas Company's Santa Monica Plant, showing wing sections for bombers, ca.1940

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Airplane factories (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), Douglas Corporation (subject), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- Airplane assembly (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1940

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-m10963

Identifier 40608 (accession number), CHS-40608 (call number), CHS-40608 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18887 (legacy record id), chs-m10963 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11114 (legacy record id), 84-1-683 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18887

Unique identifier UC136240

Legacy Identifier CHS-40608.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
53.0 cm × 41.6 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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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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