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Title: Opening of Technology Instrument Corp. plant
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: 1959
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.
Open between 1960 and 1965, the Rancho Conejo Airport was part of Janss Corporation's Rancho Conejo Light Manufacturing & Research Center. Northrop was the main tenant, with both their Institute of Technology and Northrop Corporation Ventura Division, located at the runway's southern end. Technology Instrument Corporation manufactured light electronic instruments for the military and the space program at their 24,000-square-foot facility on the property.
Photograph caption dated October 14, 1959 reads, "Dr. Luis W. Alvarez, center, snips ribbon with king-size scissors to mark opening of Technology Instrument Corp. plant in Rancho Conejo Light manufacturing Research Center, Thousand Oaks, in ceremonies attended by, from left, Edwin P. Janss, president of Janss Corp., and Joseph M. Looney Jr., president of TIC."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085287
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f4_i5
CARL0004765028
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42828
Subject: Janss, Edwin P
Alvarez, Luis W.,--1911-1988
Technology Instrument Corporation (Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, Calif.)
Rancho Conejo Light Manufacturing & Research Center (Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, Calif.)
Janss Corporation
Building dedications--California--Thousand Oaks (Ventura County)
Electronic industries--California--Thousand Oaks (Ventura County)
Aerospace industries--California--Thousand Oaks (Ventura County)
Scientists--United States
Thousand Oaks (Ventura County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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