California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Close-up of a woman working at the Lear Corporation, September 1950

(USC DC Image)

Close-up of a woman working at the Lear Corporation, September 1950

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

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".

Asset Metadata

Title Close-up of a woman working at the Lear Corporation, September 1950

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1950-09-16

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 1950-09-16

Creator Hullibarger's Photography (photographer)

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-m10947

Identifier 40586 (accession number), CHS-40586 (call number), CHS-40586 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18875 (legacy record id), chs-m10947 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11098 (legacy record id), 84-1-1303 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18875

Unique identifier UC135907

Legacy Identifier CHS-40586.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.5 in × 20.9 in at 300dpi
41.9 cm × 53.3 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

Linked assets

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Conceptually similar

Four Lear Corporation Research and Development Division workers at work, September 1950

Four Lear Corporation Research and Development Division workers examining a component, September 1950

Lear Research and Development Division assemblers at work, September 1950

Lear Research and Development Division machinist at work, September 1950

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

Interior of the Lockheed Corporation plant, showing the manufacture of Super Constellation airplanes, ca.1950

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

Interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, September 1937

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

Assembling of a DC-3/C-47 aircraft, ca.1940

Interior of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation airplane factory in Buffalo, NY, ca.1940

Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929

Exterior view of the Lockheed Corporation plant in Burbank, January 27, 1929

Close-up of machinery in a rubber factory, ca.1945

Three metal-plated nose-ends of the Lockheed Constellation aircrafts at a factory assembly line, ca.1943-1958

Interior of the Douglas Company's Santa Monica Plant, ca.1920

Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Plant, showing a 54-ton machine, part of the "U.S. Air Force's long range plans to obtain advanced weapons systems economically", ca.1950

An unidentified aircraft assembly manufacturing factory assembly line, showing F-80 airplanes, ca.1945-1950

Interior of the Northrop Corporation's Hawthorne plant, where the Snark Missile was being constructed, ca.1950

Interior view of the Lockheed Corporation plant, ca.1940

Similar tones

View images with similar tones