Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
Air raid warning service in Los Angeles., 1943-08
- Containers:
- Box 833, Sleeve 105879.06
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG
- Dates:
- 1943-08
- Scope and content:
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Headed by Governor Earl Warren, members of the California State War Council inspect the information center of the Los Angeles Air Defense Wing, Fourth Fighter Command. The party inspected the unique filter room at the center where volunteer women by use of movable terminals and indicators keep track of every plane in the air over this territory. The information is phoned to the 'nerve center' from observation posts indicated on the board where each flight is followed and then filtered and plotted for aircraft warning defense. Volunteer women numbering 1800 work at this 24-hour-a-day job. The party made the visit in connection with Aircraft Warning Service Week. Military officials and high state officers, including Governor Earl Warren, Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, Lieutenant Colonel Merrick Bayer and Major Gomer Lewis, were in the party of inspection.
Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
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AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. SOME PORTIONS RESTRICTED.
Boxes 1-218: Restricted due to handling and transportation hazards. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. For Boxes 1-30 and Boxes 70-96 a sleeve-level listing is available in the library.
Boxes 219-3198: Available by appointment only. Advance notice required for use.
- Parent terms of access:
- Copyright to photographs taken by staff photographers of the San Francisco Examiner in this collection has been assigned to the University of California Regents. Only the photographs created by these staff photographers in this collection are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following attribution is required for all uses of these photographs: "Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license."
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481