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Title: Lockheed readies planes at Palmdale
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: 1957
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: Photograph caption dated October 14, 1957 reads, "All-star lineup - Fuselage sections of Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter are shown as they go through assembly line in Burbank's California Division. After workers mate fuselage sections shown above, they are moved by trucks to Palmdale where wings and tail are added."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00115368
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f2_i14
CARL0005313009
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49236
Subject: Lockheed Corporation
Lockheed Corporation--Employees
United States.--Air Force
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Aircraft industry--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Aircraft industry--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Employees
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Fuselage
Starfighter (Fighter plane)
Assembly-line methods
Interiors--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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