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Title
New Super Connie for Canada
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
1954
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 20, 1954 reads, "During ceremonies at Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank marking delivery of new Super Constellation to Trans-Canada Airlines, Charles Detoy, left, president of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, presents city limits sign to W. J. Borrie, president of Canadian Chamber. That's Suzanne Alexander, native of Toronto, now a TV and film starlet, watching. Borrie gave Detoy plaque making Los Angeles honorary province of Canada. Trans-Canada Airlines has ordered eight Super Connies in $20,000,000 deal."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00139091
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d047_f22_i10
CARL0005688372
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/68283
Subject
Detoy, Charles,--1924-2005
Lockheed Air Terminal, Inc
Trans-Canada Airlines
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Canadian Chamber of Commerce--Presidents
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce--Presidents
Signs and signboards--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Constellation (Transport planes)
Actresses--Canada
Flags--United States
Flags--Canada
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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