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Title: Lockheed's howdah paint booth
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated May 18, 1954 reads, "Flying Paint Booth. Flying through air suspended from overhead crane is new "Howdah" paint booth originated by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to cut five days off production time on huge Super Constellations. Device has special air conditioning and fire-safety equipment."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083987
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f13_i26
CARL0002890381
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42415
Subject: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Lockheed aircraft
Aerospace industries--California--Bubank (Los Angeles County)
Constellation (Transport planes)
Assembly-line methods
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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