California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Proposed site of the Palmdale Airport near a military reservation, July 6, 1970

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Proposed site of the Palmdale Airport near a military reservation, July 6, 1970

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Photograph of the proposed site of the Palmdale Airport near a military reservation, July 6, 1970. A paved road runs from left to right across center. A stop sign and a street sign can be seen in front of the road at left. In the foreground at center, a sign can be seen attached to a barbed wire fence reading: "U.S. Military Reservation. No Trespassing". In the background, the flat land is sparsely covered with small desert bushes. Buildings can be seen in the distance at right.

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Title Proposed site of the Palmdale Airport near a military reservation, July 6, 1970

Subject Airports (lcsh), Building sites (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Antelope Valley (file heading), Military (lcsh), Palmdale Airport (subject), roadways (adlf), Signs and signboards (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 50th Street East and Avenue M (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Palmdale (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1970-07-06

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1970-07-06

Contributor Foster & Kleiser (donor)

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-m5370

Identifier 40240 (accession number), CHS-40240 (call number), CHS-40240 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25896 (legacy record id), chs-m5370 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5483 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25896

Unique identifier UC129145

Legacy Identifier CHS-40240.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.5 cm × 41.7 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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