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Title: Future site of General Atomics, La Jolla
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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.
General Atomics was created for the purpose of harnessing the power of nuclear technologies for the benefit of mankind. GA is one of the world's leading resources for development in nuclear science. Areas of specialty include: remotely operated surveillance aircraft, airborne sensors, and advanced electric, electronic, wireless and laser technologies.
Looking northwest towards the coast in La Jolla, at the future site of the General Atomics campus, located east of what is now County Highway S21 (background, center) and west of Interstate 5. The Pacific Ocean is in the far background. Two years after this photograph was taken, a 120-acre facility, designed by the architectural firm of Pereira & Luckman, was completed on this site for the nuclear technologies company. Photograph dated February 20, 1956.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089161
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 245-12
CARL0004941990
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4640
Subject: Coasts--California--San Diego
La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)--Aerial views
La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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