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Title: Hercules Missile Base opens in Valley
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: 1958
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.
Description: Pictured at center is Major General W. A. Perry, as he addresses a crowd of people at the first Nike-Hercules base to go operational in nation. The base is located at Oat Mountain Base in Chatsworth. Photograph dated September 4, 1958.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114030
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d015_f3_i26
CARL0005291526
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47639
Subject: United States.--Army
Guided missile bases--California--Chatsworth (Los Angeles)
Antiaircraft missiles--United States
Military weapons--United States
Mountains--California, Southern
Air weapons
Nike rocket
Men--California--Los Angeles
Chatsworth (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Santa Susana Mountains (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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