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Title
Engineer working with Litton 20, a "revolutionary new" electronic digital computer by Litton Industries, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
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 an engineer working with Litton 20, a "revolutionary new" electronic digital computer by Litton Industries, ca.1940. A man sits at left, in front of a small computer, with his right hand on the device. In the background, a shelf full of books can be seen across another table.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10725
USC-2-1-1-10874 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40949
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10725
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40949.jpg
Subject
Computers
Industry--Offices--Meetings
Litton Industries
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
Beverly Hills
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40949 [Accession number]
84-1-2057 [Microfiche number]
CHS-40949 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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