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Title: Blast-off
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: 1960
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.
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated April 15, 1960 reads "Navy-Lockheed Polaris missile soars into sky off San Clemente Island, leaving 2,000-foot trail of steam after successful operational test."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00155965
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d060_f14_i14
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/129201
Subject: United States.--Navy Department
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
Polaris (Missile)
Ballistic missiles--Testing
Islands
San Clemente Island (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Time Period: 1951-1960

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