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Title: Kenneth T. Norris, Sr
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Beaux Arts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
In 1930, Kenneth T. Norris, Sr. opened Norris Stamping & Manufacturing Company, which later became known as Norris Industries. Norris was a metallurgist who discovered how to create steel casings for bullets, which led to the business's success during World War II. Norris Industries later acquired such well-known companies as Price Pfister, Artistic Brass and Thermador Waste King.
Portrait of Kenneth T. Norris, Sr., the president of the Norris Industries. Photograph dated November 21, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077716
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9316
CARL0000080406
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24876
Subject: Norris, Kenneth T.--(Kenneth True),--1899-1972
Norris Industries--Presidents
Businessmen--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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