Winnie Medicke setting up camp outside Port Hueneme for a surplus supply sale, Port Hueneme, July 15, 1946
Item Overview
- Title
- Winnie Medicke setting up camp outside Port Hueneme for a surplus supply sale, Port Hueneme, July 15, 1946
- Date Created
- July 15, 1946
- Date
- 1946-07-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Winnie Medicke sets up camp outside Port Hueneme in order to have first chance at purchasing Quonset Huts and other surplus army and navy supplies such as tentage, steel bunks, electrical saws, bridge-building equipment, pumps and an air-raid warning siren. More than 1000 veterans with priority certificates showed up for the sale. The huts cost between $230 and $288 depending on the number of windows.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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United States. Navy
United States. Army
Medicke, Winnie
United States. War Assets Administration - Location
- Port Hueneme
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Veterans--American
Quonset huts--California--Port Hueneme
Camping--California--Port Hueneme
War
Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme
Economy
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280k14
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .