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Title
Workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of workers lowering machinery inside the Northrop Corporation's Plant, ca.1950. A man stands at center, left of a device that is being lowered to the ground with the aid of a pulley. Part of another man standing beside him can be seen at left, while the back of another man can be seen by the machinery in the background, at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10971
USC-2-1-1-11122 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40611
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10971
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40611.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Aircraft industry
Guided missile industries
Industry--Aeronautics--Airplane assembly
Northrop Corporation
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
California
Hawthorne
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40611 [Accession number]
CHS-40611 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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