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Title: X-7 missile given to UCLA engineering department
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated October 30, 1959 reads, "X-7 Joins "Staff" -- Newest "member" of UCLA engineering faculty is Lockheed-built X-7 missile which was given to university by Air Force as space age teaching tool. Inspecting 38-foot long missile are, from left, Air Force Col. Roy Gustafson, Gordon Smith of Lockheed sales department and Prof. Wendell A. Mason, vice chairman of UCLA department of engineering."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085484
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f24_i19
CARL0004772538
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43057
Subject: University of California, Los Angeles.--Department of Engineering
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
Guided missiles
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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