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Title: Ladder that leads skyward
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: 1958
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: Photograph caption dated October 16, 1958 reads "Lt. Cmdr. Robert Elshire, of North Hollywood, pauses beside his Lockheed-built Sea Star jet fighter before winging skyward on training mission. He is member of Naval Air reserve Jet Fighter Squadron 782 based at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station near Long Beach. Unit recently completed two weeks' training in Nevada."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124614
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d029_f9_i25
CARL0005424259
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/57038
Subject: United States.--Naval Air Reserve
Men--California--Los Alamitos
Fighter pilots--California--Los Alamitos
Armed Forces--Officers
Jet fighter planes--California--Los Alamitos
Airplanes, Military--California--Los Alamitos
Airports--California--Los Alamitos
Helmets--California--Los Alamitos
Ladders
Signs and signboards--California--Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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