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Plant operations, Solar Aircraft. 1943



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  • Plant operations, Solar Aircraft. 1943

    Plant operations, Solar Aircraft. 1943

    Visual Materials

    A woman wearing goggles and a bandana works at a station at Solar Aircraft. The worker is seated in front of what looks like part of an exhaust held by a vise, welding the exhaust together. A torch can just be seen in the worker's right hand, a rod of metal in her left hand.

    photCL Whitt 3071b ; Whitt neg. 2893

  • Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

    Newspaper printing, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles. 1941

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    Two men work on a printing press at the Los Angeles Times. One of the men stands on a raised platform and looks at printed pages which are feeding through the machine. The other man stands on the ground level below him and has his hand on a panel of large buttons.

    photCL Whitt 1451 ; Whitt neg. 1228

  • Ski jump at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. 1935

    Ski jump at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. 1935

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    A woman with a shovel loads snow into a wheelbarrow at the bottom of a ski jump being constructed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The woman is wearing a hat, gloves, and a scarf, and stands in front of a pile of snow.

    photCL Whitt 0782 ; Whitt neg. 0815

  • Ski jump at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. 1935

    Ski jump at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 North Highland, Los Angeles. 1935

    Visual Materials

    A woman with a shovel loads snow into a snow blower (?) at the bottom of a ski jump being constructed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The woman is wearing a hat, gloves, and a scarf, and stands in front of a thinly covered hill.

    photCL Whitt 0781 ; Whitt neg. 0810

  • Factory interior, Bethlehem Steel Company. 1936

    Factory interior, Bethlehem Steel Company. 1936

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    A view of a production area in the Bethlehem Steel Company factory. Two men use tongs to pull a long piece of white-hot steel out of a smoking machine. Another man stands by the machine holding the end of a long pole, perhaps used for cutting the steel off at the desired length.

    photCL Whitt 1732 ; Whitt neg. 1554

  • John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939

    John Cobb, land speed record, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 1939

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    John Cobb stands in the driver's hatch of his Railton automobile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cobb, who is wearing goggles, a cap, and a boilersuit, or coveralls, with the Gilmore Oil Company lion logo on the left breast, looks off into the distance while another man speaks into a microphone being held in front of him. A crowd watches in the background.

    photCL Whitt 2760 ; Whitt neg. 2699