California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Three women walking by the exterior of the North American Aviation Downey airplane factory, September 1950

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Three women walking by the exterior of the North American Aviation Downey airplane factory, September 1950

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Photograph of three women walking by the exterior of the North American Aviation Downey airplane factory, September 1950. Three women in skirts walk down a path between grassy plots of land lined with bushes. Behind them is a rounded building with the name "North American Aviation Inc....Downey Plant".; Photoprint reads: "A decorative touch to the face of the North American Aviation's Downey Plant is supplied by (left to right) Marion Burgman, Wilma McDonnell and Chari Sewell, company employees. The Downey plant and facilities reporting to it have more than 10,000 employees engaged in a long-range guided missile research and development program, and programs in the fields of rocket engine development and nuclear energy work".

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Title Three women walking by the exterior of the North American Aviation Downey airplane factory, September 1950

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Airplane factories (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- General (file heading), North American Aviation (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 27 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

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-m10944

Identifier 43851 (accession number), CHS-43851 (call number), CHS-43851 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18872 (legacy record id), chs-m10944 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11095 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18872

Unique identifier UC136221

Legacy Identifier CHS-43851.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.8 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
55.4 cm × 42.0 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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