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Title
Douglas Company factory, Santa Monica, California
Date Created and/or Issued
1923
1924
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Aerial view of the buildings of the Douglas Company plant (later incorporated as the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1928) along Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, with a biplane and plane wings visible around the back building, and billboard advertisements along the fence at right.
Title devised by cataloger; date range based on information on envelope in which negative was received and the development of the plant as compared to an early photograph (see photCL_555_05_92) and a later photograph (see photCL_555_05_95); the Douglas Company operated on the property from 1922 to 1929.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
487656
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16966
Subject
Airplane factories
Douglas Aircraft Company
Factories
Biplanes
Photographs. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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