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Title: WAC Corporal's last mission
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 caption dated April 26, 1958 reads, "Last of America's first two-staged rockets, WAC Corporal will take its last ride in box to Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., where it will become part of collection of historic aircraft. On hand to say goodby [sic] at Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena are, from left, V. C. Larsen Jr., JPL administrator; Col. J. E. Johnston and Dr. William H. Pickering, JPL director."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00116338
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f34_i11
CARL0005329966
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/50088
Subject: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Rockets (Aeronautics)--United States
Men--California--Pasadena
WAC Corporal rocket
Pasadena (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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