California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing the "missile mission" simulator, ca.1950

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Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing the "missile mission" simulator, ca.1950

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Photograph of the interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing the "missile mission" simulator, ca.1950. A man in a suit stands before a large board, and connects wires from one point to another.; Photoprint reads: "Four plastic panels mounted across the back of 'Mimi', Northrop Aircraft's 'missile mission simulator, serve as a terminal board interconnecting all the units of the guidance system undergoing test. Each terminal connected in the system is a numbered test jack used to quickly pinpoint trouble spots during the rigourous examination. Here Frank De Barry, Northrop test fixture engineer, arranges patch cables to connect metering on the front panel to various test jacks on the terminal board. Signals are recorded on oscillographs and voltages are measures on meters at each check point to determine the accuracy of any segment of the system. From: Public Relations Division. Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Hawthorne, California".

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Title Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing the "missile mission" simulator, ca.1950

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Guided missile industries (lcsh), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- General (file heading), Northrop Corporation (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

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-m10974

Identifier 40595 (accession number), CHS-40595 (call number), CHS-40595 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18895 (legacy record id), chs-m10974 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11125 (legacy record id), USC (project), R 21137 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18895

Unique identifier UC135913

Legacy Identifier CHS-40595.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
52.9 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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