John C. Gordon Photographic Collection, MSS-1996-03-29-02, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. Kaiser Community Houses was a home-building project started after World War II by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) and real estate developer Fritz Burns to address the burgeoning housing needs of postwar America. These suburban communities were built in three West Coast metropolitan areas: Los Angeles (North Hollywood and Panorama City in the San Fernando Valley), the San Francisco Bay Area, and Portland, Oregon. Captured by Luna Imaging using Fujifilm Lanovia C-550 Scanner or Cambo 4x5 Camera with a Phase One PowerPhase FX Digital Back as a 600 dpi TIF image in 8-bit grayscale, retained in the SJSU library digital repository as master image. Operating System during capture is Mac OS X Version 10.6.6. Image retouched with Adobe Photoshop CS3. Access copy compressed into JPEG format using Irfanview Version 4.28. Pixel size: 17100 x 6119 Pixels (104.63 MPixels). File size: 99.8 MB.
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