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Title
Construction of the North American Aviation Inc. plant at Mines Field, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
December, 1935
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the headline, “Here're Constructions That Indicate Extensive Industrial Development of This Metropolitan Region,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: A9.
Text from newspaper caption: As shown in the above new view, work is far advanced on the $1,000,000 airplane manufacturing plant being constructed at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport, Mines Field, for North American Aviation, Inc., an affiliate of General Motors. On a twenty-acre site at the southeast section of the field, this plant, when completed and in operation, will be one of the largest and most important of its kind in the nation. The structure fronts Imperial Highway at the south and Redondo Boulevard at the east.
Text from negative sleeve: 4316 – No. American Aviation Co. Mines Field
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13464
ark:/21198/zz002hnnzg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Construction--California--Los Angeles
Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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