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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of three women walking by the exterior of the North American Aviation Downey airplane factory, September 1950. Three women in skirts walk down a path between grassy plots of land lined with bushes. Behind them is a rounded building with the name "North American Aviation Inc....Downey Plant". Photoprint reads: "A decorative touch to the face of the North American Aviation's Downey Plant is supplied by (left to right) Marion Burgman, Wilma McDonnell and Chari Sewell, company employees. The Downey plant and facilities reporting to it have more than 10,000 employees engaged in a long-range guided missile research and development program, and programs in the fields of rocket engine development and nuclear energy work".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 27 cm. photographic prints photographs
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