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Title: Short climb for space leap
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: 1958
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
Photograph caption dated June 18, 1958 reads "Dressed in bright orange flight suit with 'G' suit around legs and waist, Keeshen climbs up ladder to observer's seat in rear of two-man Sabre jet at Palmdale." The words "U. S. Air Force" are written on the side of the plane.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118568
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d022_f18_i13
CARL0005381208
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52505
Subject: Keeshan, Walt,--Jr
United States.--Air Force
Valley Times (Firm)
Valley Times (Firm)--Employees
Editors--California--Palmdale
F-100 (Jet fighter plane)
Bombers--California--Palmdale
Jet fighter planes--California--Palmdale
Airplanes, Military--United States
Men--California--Palmdale
Journalism, Aeronautical--California--Palmdale
Newspaper employees--California--Palmdale
Pressure suits--California--Palmdale
Helmets--California--Palmdale
Palmdale (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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