Veterans filling out paperwork to purchase Quonset huts and other surplus military supplies, Port Hueneme, July 15, 1946
Item Overview
- Title
- Veterans filling out paperwork to purchase Quonset huts and other surplus military supplies, 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
- Veterans filling out paperwork with the War Assets Administration at Port Hueneme to purchase 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, some camped out to ensure they would get their choice of hut. 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
United States. War Assets Administration - Location
- Port Hueneme
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme
Economy
Government
War
Veterans--American
Quonset huts--California--Port Hueneme
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280k35
- 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 .