California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Inglewood's Space Technology Laboratories at night, July 30, 1957

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Inglewood's Space Technology Laboratories at night, July 30, 1957

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Photograph of an exterior view of four buildings housing Space Technology Laboratories, the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, Air Force Ballistic Missile Division (ARDC), and the Ballistic Missile Office of the Air Materiel Command, July 30, 1957. The STL complex location is on Arbor Vitae Street between Airport and Aviation, Inglewood. A street can barely be seen across the foreground with a row of long, short buildings along its far side. Trees and bushes sit in the yards in front of the buildings. Several security lights shine on the exterior walls. Other lights shine through the windows from the interior.; Photoprint reads: "Space Technology Laboratories -- These four modern structures house the nerve centers of Space Technology Laboratories, The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation as well as serving as headquarters for the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division (ARDC) and the Ballistic Missile Office of the Air Material Command. In acting as a technical staff for the Air Force in connection with its ballistic missile program, STL has systems engineering and technical direction responsibility for Atlas, Titan and Thor weapons systems. The STL complex is located on Arbor Vitae Street between Airport and Aviation in Inglewood."

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Title Inglewood's Space Technology Laboratories at night, July 30, 1957

Subject Aerospace industries (lcsh), buildings (adlf), buildings (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Inglewood (file heading), Night (lcsh), Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (subject), Space Technology Laboratories (subject), United States Air Force (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arbor Vitae Street between Airport and Aviation (roadway), California (states), Inglewood (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1957-07-30

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), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1957-07-30

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-m5769

Identifier 44970 (accession number), CHS-44970 (call number), CHS-44970 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5784 (legacy record id), chs-m5769 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-5891 (legacy record id), 84-1-1574 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5784

Unique identifier UC127654

Legacy Identifier CHS-44970.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
52.6 cm × 42.9 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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