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Title: Civil defense adds tower
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 March 14, 1958 reads "Burbank radio engineers install new Civil Defense tower for broadcasting on top of truck which serves as mobile communitations center in case of disaster. Col. R. E. Brooking, left, talks to Robert Laustrop in foreground as radiomen Bill Norvell, Sheldon Light and Ivan Wilenken prepare to crank up 62-foot tower."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121151
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d025_f15_i9
CARL0005394278
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/53952
Subject: Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Engineers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Civil defense readiness--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Radio and television towers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Dwellings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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