Los Angeles County, California Historic photos, documents, and people

A scale wind tunnel model of North American Aviation's P-51 fighter is prepared by two model shop employees before another test is made to determine its flight characteristics. All measurements on thes

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line and onto the flight ramp. When the ships are ready for flight, rubber wheels are attached, and the wood goes back to the assembly

A painter on the flight ramp marks off the transparent enclosure on a North American B-25 bomber before adding the camouflage paint of the United States Army Air Force. Windows covered with brown paper

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas have been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rental eight dollars.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter. Earns seventy dollars a month.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. Califor

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to u

Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its stud

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