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Title: Cloaked Atlas in Valley bow
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Creator: Dean, Gordon
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.
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Description: Photograph caption dated May 8, 1958 reads "Cloaked in silver-colored canvas, intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas was trucked down Ventura boulevard in Encino today bound for Camp Cooke Air Force Missile Training Center near Santa Cruz. This was first Atlas to appear on Valley streets and will mark first delivery to Air Force's new Pacific testing range."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier: 00155594
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d059_f30_i4
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/128672
Subject: United States.--Air Force
Atlas (Missile)
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Guided missiles
Trucks
Streets
Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1951-1960

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