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Title
Computer freight control
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Messinger, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued
1970
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
Emery Air Freight in May 1970 marked the anniversary of its computerized air freight handling system, EMCON, with record volume of hour-to-hour reports on shipments and aircraft at over two dozen U.S. air terminals. The system tells shippers where their shipment is at any time during the delivery period.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00044948
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 13211.
CARL0000049202
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14835
Subject
Emery Air Freight (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aeronautics, Commercial--Freight
Computers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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