Man keeps track of sales at Port Hueneme's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946

Title: Man keeps track of sales at Port Hueneme's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946
Date Created: between May 20 and May 26, 1946
Date: 1946-05-20/1946-05-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Man keeps track of sales at Port Hueneme's truck and trailer surplus sale for veterans. The sale included 5499 vehicles valued at about $14,000,000 total.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: War Assets Corporation - War Materials Surplus sale at Port Hueneme, Calif., May 1946: Drive-Away trucks: Sanchez, Manuel - San Pedro; Fletcher, Robt - LA; Fetherston, F.W. - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Goode, S.M. and Mrs. - Dana, Calif. (broken bow on truck); Farthing, Eldon - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Wilson, Leonard J.; Roberts, George - Reseda, Calif. (first truck sold); Roberts, George and Smurr, Hylen L.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: United States. War Assets Administration
Location: Port Hueneme
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme
Economy
Trucks--American--California--Port Hueneme
Charts
Trailers--California--Port Hueneme
Transportation
Business

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280gzn
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