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Title: Franklin Thomas
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1948
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Aerial photos of Death Valley
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1948

Title: Don Yost
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1948
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Aerial photos of Death Valley
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1948

Title: Aerial photos of Death Valley
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1948

Title: Interior of B-29 aircraft loaded with magnet cloud chamber for high-altitude cosmic-ray experiments
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1948
Description: Image of Carl Anderson superimposed on original negative, top left. Carl Anderson Papers.

Title: Paul MacCready and Orlik
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1948
Description: Paul MacCready flies the Orlik in a soaring contest over Torrey Pines, on the Southern California coast north of San Diego, in the spring of 1948. He was then 22 years old and a graduate student at Caltech. A few month later he won the 15th National Soaring Championship held at Elmira, New York, with the same plane -a Polish-built sailplane with 49.5-foot wing span. About the open cockpit, MacCready wrote on the back of the photo: “It was much more fun without the canopy.”

Title: Chemistry Faculty
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1948
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: From top: Waser, Schroeder, Lacey, Bates, Kirkwood, Lucas, Wulf, Badger, Davidson, Swift, Tolman, Niemann, Zechmeister, Yost, Campbell, Hughes. Chemistry.

Title: Aerial view of the campus
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1948
Series: Campus and Student Life
Description: There are twenty-eight buildings on the campus and eight off-campus, including four buildings at Mt. Palomar. Campus Aerial Views.