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Title: North American Aviation, Vultee/Downey Field, looking east
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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.
Aerial view of North American Aviation, located at Vultee/Downey Field, in the city of Downey; view is looking east. Designed by architect Gordon Kaufman, the field is located north of Lakewood Boulevard and west of Imperial Highway. Identifiable streets are: Lakewood Boulevard (slightly horizontally at middle); Bellflower Boulevard (horizontally at upper center, behind the factory); Imperial Highway (middle right to top middle); Woodruff Avenue (horizontally at top); Alameda Street (diagonally, bottom left to center left); Mory Street (bottom middle, curving to middle center) and Donovan Street (bottom middle to middle right). Alameda Elementary School is visible at lower left edge. Photograph dated August 28, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00094346
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 401-1a
CARL0005097965
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7033
Subject: North American Aviation
Aircraft industry--California--Downey
Dwellings--California--Downey
Streets--California--Downey
Downey (Calif.)--Aerial views
Downey (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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