Radar Towers on College Campus
Collection: This image is from the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
Date: April 10, 1947; 1947-04-10
Material: gelatin silver prints Dimension:
9 x 7 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Long Island Daily Press
Identifier: aql:22492 ldp-000805 ldp-000805.tif
Description: These radar towers were erected on the Queens College campus to help guide planes landing at LaGuardia Field, a few miles away. Maintained by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the equipment itself was still at this time a military secret, so the public could only observe the towers from a distance.
Creator :
Long Island Daily Press
Date :
April 10, 1947; 1947-04-10
Summary/Description :
These radar towers were erected on the Queens College campus to help guide planes landing at LaGuardia Field, a few miles away. Maintained by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the equipment itself was still at this time a military secret, so the public could only observe the towers from a distance.
Subject :
Queens College (New York, N.Y.); Airport control towers
Relation :
This image is from the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
Rights :
Copyright holder unknown
Coverage :
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY Queens (New York, N.Y.) Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
black and white print; digital image
Format :
gelatin silver prints; 9 x 7 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Identifier :
aql:22492 ldp-000805 ldp-000805.tif
Subject:
Queens College (New York, N.Y.); Airport control towers
Queens College (New York, N.Y.); Airport control towers
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Copyright holder unknown
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