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Title: Explorer II explained by scientist
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 included in the exhibit: "From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns, 1954-1965."
Photograph caption dated March 5, 1958 reads, "Dr. William H. Pickering, left, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses America's second Satellite Explorer II at Pasadena headquarters. Model of interior of satellite is shown on desk." On the right is Al Hibbs.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082785
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d060_f19_i9; H-22614.1 4x5
CARL0000025321
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41755
Subject: Hibbs, Albert R
Pickering, W. H.--(William Hayward),--1910-2004
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)--Employees
Explorer satellites
Satellites
Physicists--United States
Men--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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