California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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

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

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Photograph of the interior of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation airplane factory in Buffalo, NY, ca.1940. Several men stand around a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk plane under construction in the foreground, with one man seated at the cockpit. Several other planes stand behind the first, and another row can be seen at left. Rows of airplane parts can be seen in the background. Photoprint reads: "North American P-51A's or P-40's ?". Note: Originally, the photograph was captioned as, "Interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, ca.1940"; however, all the planes the photograph features are the P-40s, and all the P-40s ever produced were built at the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York.

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1940

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Airplane factories (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (subject), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- Airplane assembly (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Buffalo (city or populated place), Erie (counties), New York (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10941

Identifier 40603 (accession number), CHS-40603 (call number), CHS-40603 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18870 (legacy record id), chs-m10941 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11092 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18870

Unique identifier UC136236

Legacy Identifier CHS-40603.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.9 cm × 41.7 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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