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Title: Apollo 11 Astronauts Welcomed
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection;
Creator: Messinger, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969
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: Used in the exhibit "Over Our Heads: Los Angeles Goes From Stargazing to Moon Landing."
Snipe attached to photo dated August 15, 1969 reads, "Astros Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin wave to a crowd of approx 2,500 who greeted them at LAX." The three astronauts traveled to Los Angeles in order to attend a state dinner at the Century Plaza in their honor, following the successful Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00163939
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 3712
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/130073
Subject: Armstrong, Neil,--1930-2012
Collins, Michael,--1930-2021
Aldrin, Buzz
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
Astronauts--United States
Los Angeles International Airport
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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