Woman with Hughes Aircraft Company's manufactured silicon semiconductors, ca.1950

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Photograph of a woman with Hughes Aircraft Company's manufactured silicon semiconductors, ca.1950. A woman with a mask stands left of a silicon semiconductor, which appears to be a lit tube with coiling around it. More machinery can be seen in the background.; Photoprint reads: "Fiery Furnace -- Technician Majorie Johnson watches molten ladle of silicon in electric furnace during first stage of semiconductor manufacture at Hughes Aircraft Company plant in Los Angeles. Perfect silicon crystals, drawn from molten mass shown, are vital 'heart' of Hughes silicon semiconductors. Company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductors, tiny replacements for vacuum tubes in electronic circuitry".

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Title Woman with Hughes Aircraft Company's manufactured silicon semiconductors, ca.1950

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Computers (lcsh), Hughes Aircraft Company (subject), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 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-m10978

Identifier 40599 (accession number), CHS-40599 (call number), CHS-40599 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18899 (legacy record id), chs-m10978 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11129 (legacy record id), USC (project), R 53591 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18899

Unique identifier UC136235

Legacy Identifier CHS-40599.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 20.8 in at 300dpi
41.9 cm × 53.0 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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