Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Winnie Medicke sets up camp outside Port Hueneme in order to have first chance at purchasing Quonset Huts and other surplus army and navy supplies such as tentage, steel bunks, electrical saws, bridge-building equipment, pumps and an air-raid warning siren. More than 1000 veterans with priority certificates showed up for the sale. The huts cost between $230 and $288 depending on the number of windows. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Winnie Medicke Text from original nitrate sleeve: 36261-B: War Materials, Surplus; Quonset Hut Sale, Port Hueneme; Cravens, Jack; Medicke, Winnie; Lauderdale, Jim B., wife Mary Elise; Ganow, Wm C.; Knudsen, Ronald; Pugsley, Larry
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz00280k14
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No linguistic content
Subject
Veterans--American Quonset huts--California--Port Hueneme Camping--California--Port Hueneme War Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme Economy United States. Navy United States. Army Medicke, Winnie United States. War Assets Administration
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