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 a man by a large propeller on an aircraft assembly line, ca.1940. A man stands on a wooden ladder, and works right of a large propeller. Beneath him, another person dressed in light sanitation gear stands with tools in hand. Part of the wing(?) of the plane can be seen in the foreground, at right. The windows of the opposite side of the factory wall can be seen at left. Photoprint reads: "Horsepower on wings! Installing one of twin motors on a huge plane being built for national defense in a factory near Los Angeles. Probably North American B-25".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 18 x 23 cm. photographic prints photographs
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