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Title: Soldier stands guard over poised Nike guided missile
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph included in the exhibit: "From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns, 1954-1965."
Photograph caption dated September 8, 1960 reads: "Soldier stands guard over poised Nike guided missile. Four Nike bases form main line of defense for critical Valley area." Military personnel and journalists are grouped around the base of a Nike rocket at a missile base in the San Fernando Valley. A photographer, bottom left, squats down to take a photo.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00075806
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d008_f35_i3; H 2992.1 4x5
CARL0000078802
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41795
Subject: Nike rocket
Guided missile bases--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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