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Title: Demonstrate new aircraft seat development
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Dean, Gordon
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.
Description: Photograph caption dated December 1, 1960 reads, "Gilbert Mason relaxes as Shirley Andrews shows how light it is." Seen reclining in the plastic-molded aircraft seat he designed is E. Gilbert Mason, president of Teco Inc. in Burbank. The article partially reads, "Mason unveiled the seat, which has been designated the 'Mason Seat,' Wednesday during a special press conference. Prototypes on display were examples of the first 'breakthrough in aircraft seating in 25 years,' he said."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111855
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d012_f7_i16
CARL0005263589
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/46096
Subject: Airplanes--Seats--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Product demonstrations--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Businessmen--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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