Displays of model airplanes and model ships at Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California. The model airplanes are displayed by grade and have photographs posted nearby showing the real airplanes. The types of ships modeled include a...
Douglas Aircraft's well-known A-20 "Havoc" bomber was produced at their Santa Monica plant, which was served by Edison. A wartime censor inked out the plane's serial numbers on the original photo, so the exact date of this picture is uncertain. ...
Edison also served Douglas' Long Beach plant where the ubiquitous C-47, military version of the DC-3, was assembled. [This photo courtesy of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Now Boeing] Pg. 197.
The Roy A. Anderson Papers, 1909-1995 (10 boxes) document the career and life of Anderson during the second half of the twentieth century, and the early history of Lockheed Corporation from the early 1900s into the 1990s. The collection is divided...
The Willis M. Hawkins Papers, 1920-2009 (80 boxes) document the successful aerospace engineering career of Hawkins at Lockheed, the relationships between industry, military, and government, and the development of airplanes, missile systems, and...
Group of men on a Big Creek Hydroelectric tour - showing the airline flight, the Big Creek guest house, dinners, poker night, Powerhouse #1, Mammoth Pool Powerhouse, fish hatchery, etc. [with 111 variants]
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler (second from left, others unidentified) standing in front of a trimotor plane. Notes written between the participants around the margins of the print read, "W.B. See the 'do or die' expression on your...
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler in the doorway of "The Goose," the first all-metal airplane in Los Angeles. Cecil B. DeMille leaning on wing. (L to R) unidentified, unidentified, Harry Chandler (in doorway), John B. Miller (President...