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Title: Arrival of Iron Lungs
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: 1948
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 was edited for publication purposes; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph dated August 26, 1948 shows a group of men transferring two iron lungs from a Slick Airways cargo plane to the bed of a truck. This photograph was most likely taken at Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00116614
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d018_f23_i13
CARL0005330000
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/50126
Subject: Slick Airways, Inc
Slick Airways, Inc.--Employees
Douglas DC-6 (Transport plane)
Transport planes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Iron lung--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Trucks--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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