California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Technicians at work at the Lockheed Corporation's Missile Systems Division, ca.1950

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Technicians at work at the Lockheed Corporation's Missile Systems Division, ca.1950

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Photograph of technicians at work at the Lockheed Corporation's Missile Systems Division, ca.1950. A man stands in the foreground, leaning against a large squared machine and reading the etchings it makes on what appears to be a large paper surface. In the background, three men stand facing a wall of assorted machinery.; Photoprint reads: "Van Nuys California. Electronic telemetering equipment transforms a cacophony of sound into significant mathematical quantities. The sounds are transmitted from a vehicle in flight and recorded by a ground monitoring station. Recordings are run through electronic data reduction gear, shown in background and reproduced on IBM punched cards. Plotter, foreground, produces graphs for missile performance study and analyses by division researchers".

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Title Technicians at work at the Lockheed Corporation's Missile Systems Division, ca.1950

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1950

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 1950

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-m10960

Identifier 40591 (accession number), CHS-40591 (call number), CHS-40591 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18884 (legacy record id), chs-m10960 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11111 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18884

Unique identifier UC135924

Legacy Identifier CHS-40591.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
53.4 cm × 40.7 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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