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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960
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Workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950
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Workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950
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Photograph of workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950. A man stands at center, left of a device that is being lowered to the ground with the aid of a pulley. Part of another man standing beside him can be seen at left, while the back of another man can be seen by the machinery in the background, at right.
Asset Metadata
Title
Workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950
Subject
Aeronautics
(lcsh),
Aircraft industry
(lcsh),
Guided missile industries
(lcsh),
industrial sites
(adlf),
Industry -- Aeronautics -- Airplane assembly
(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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10971
Identifier
40611 (
accession number
), CHS-40611 (
call number
), CHS-40611 (
filename
), chs-m825 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18893 (
legacy record id
), chs-m10971 (
legacy record id
), USC-2-1-1-11122 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18893
Unique identifier
UC136188
Legacy Identifier
CHS-40611.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.7 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
52.7 cm × 41.1 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
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