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Title: Bare landing site
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: 1956
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
Los Angeles Airways, founded in 1944, invented the term 'heliport' and was the first company to receive authority to carry mail by helicopter as well as passengers.
Photograph caption dated March 17, 1956 reads, "Small patch of ground at right is Burbank heliport-vital link between mail trucks and waiting transcontinental aircraft and at far away international airport. Helicopter from which birds-eye view picture was taken completes aerial chain of efficient air-mail operation."; See images #00118428 through #00118434 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118432
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d022_f10_i5
CARL0005375516
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52028
Subject: Los Angeles Airways
Helicopters--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Helicopters--Landing--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Heliports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Air mail service--United States
Postal service--United States
Commercial buildings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Trucks--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Railroad tracks--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Fences--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Trees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Aerial views
Valley Times Collection photographs

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