Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Groundbreaking for international airport, 8 December 1957. Don Belding Mayor Norris Poulson J.E. Tiger Tom Russie -- 16 years. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Wyman. Date: 1957-12-08. Reporter: Adler. Assignment: Airport groundbreaking. 47/48: L to R Don Belding, president of Board of Airport Commissioners, watches as Mayor Norris Poulson signals start of airport expansion work for J.E. Tiger, assistant superintendent of construction company, driving a motor grader -- with Tom Russie, 16, tossing sand from Kitty Hawk, N.C. onto ground to mix with new airport earth".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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