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Title
Eldon Farthing examines a truck during the War Assets Administration's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946
Date Created and/or Issued
between May 20 and May 26, 1946
1946-05-20/1946-05-26
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Eldon Farthing from Covallis, Oregon looks at a rusty truck at the War Assets Administration's surplus truck and trailer sale at Port Hueneme. The sale was open to veterans only and included 5499 vehicles valued at about $14,000,000 total.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: War Assets Corporation - War Materials Surplus sale at Port Hueneme, Calif., May 1946: Drive-Away trucks: Sanchez, Manuel - San Pedro; Fletcher, Robt - LA; Fetherston, F.W. - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Goode, S.M. and Mrs. - Dana, Calif. (broken bow on truck); Farthing, Eldon - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Wilson, Leonard J.; Roberts, George - Reseda, Calif. (first truck sold); Roberts, George and Smurr, Hylen L.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [Farthing]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00280h6r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Veterans--American
Economy
Trucks--American--California--Port Hueneme
Trailers--California--Port Hueneme
War
Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme
Farthing, Eldon
United States. War Assets Administration
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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