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Title: Nikes point skyward as defiance of any attack
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: 1959
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 April 21, 1959 reads, "Meanest brothers in area - As 1st Lt. Herbert Williams talks to guests at mile-high Mt. Gleason Nike Base, two missiles, Nike-Ajax in background, forerunner, and its big brother, Nike Hercules in foreground, stand erected on launchers, ready for firing except for final connection. Installation was second in area to receive Hercules."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114034
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d015_f4_i2
CARL0005291530
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47644
Subject: United States.--Army
Guided missile bases--California--Sylmar (Los Angeles)
Antiaircraft missiles--United States
Military weapons--United States
Mountains--California, Southern
Air weapons
Nike rocket
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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