California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, September 1937

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Interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, September 1937

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Photograph of the interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, September 1937. Several desks sit in the foreground, with an assortment of office supplies on their smooth surfaces. More desk areas appear in a segregated area, at left, lined with wire fencing and strewn with overhead lighting. In the distance, at right, rows of indiscernible items can be seen.

Asset Metadata

Title Interior of the North American Aviation airplane factory, September 1937

Subject Aeronautics (lcsh), Aircraft industry (lcsh), Airplane factories (lcsh), Airplanes (lcsh), industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Aeronautics -- Airplane assembly (file heading), North American Aviation (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1937-09-16

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 1937-09-16

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-m10943

Identifier 40604 (accession number), CHS-40604 (call number), CHS-40604 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18871 (legacy record id), chs-m10943 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11094 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18871

Unique identifier UC136286

Legacy Identifier CHS-40604.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.9 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
50.6 cm × 41.4 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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