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Description
2 images. Thermos tank used for testing valves and component parts of fuels used in guided missiles, 13 June 1958. Robert S. Gardner (Vice president of Wyle Laboratories) Everett Yates (President of Advance Tank and Manufacturing Company) Bonnie Miller -- 22 years (Miss Thermos Tank). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gershon. Date: 1958-06-13. Reporter: Gershon. Assignment: All shots same caption as pix [sic] printed for early with exception one shot has two men standing under end of tank: Left, Robert S. Gardner, vic [sic] pres. Laboratory Director, Wyle Laboratories. They inspect World's largest 'Thermos tank' for testing fuels for guided missles [sic]". Supplementary material reads: "Los Angeles Examiner. 1958-06-13. Photographer: Gershon. Subject: Thermos tank. Location: Gardena. Names: Bonnie Miller, 22, 'Miss Thermos Tank smashes bottle of wine against valve on world's largest 'Thermos Bottle', a tank devised for testing valves and compnent [sic] parts of fuels used in fuided missles [sic], with Bonnie is Everett Yates, president of Advance Tank and Manufacturing Company, Gardena, designer of the 'thermos tank'".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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