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Title
View of the Hughes Aircraft Plant in Playa del Rey, June 1941
Date Created and/or Issued
1930-06
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the Hughes Aircraft Plant in Playa del Rey, June 1941. The aircraft plant can be seen in the background at left. A collection of large buildings can be seen closely grouped together. Several large agricultural fields can be seen at right, as well as in the foreground. An irrigation ditch runs from the foreground at right into the background at left. A line of low hills can be seen at left. Railroad tracks run parallel to the ditch at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8117 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35097
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8117
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35097.jpg
Subject
Aeronautics
Aircraft industry
Airplanes
Buildings
Los Angeles County--Playa Del Rey
Industrial sites
Time Period
1930-06
Place
California
Los Angeles
Playa del Rey
USA
Source
35097 [Accession number]
CHS-35097 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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