Wendover Air Base Group

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Title	Wendover Air Base Group
Collection	Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection
Photo Number	Shipler Panorama #189
Photographer	Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry
Publisher	Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of photograph	ca. 1945
Date.Original	1945; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949
Subject	Panoramas; Armed Forces - Officers; Military uniforms; Military bases; Airplanes; Aeronautics
Corporate name	United States Air Force
Geopolitical place	Nevada (Utah); Elko County (Tooele County); Wendover
Historic place name	Wendover Air Force Base
Description	Image shows the pilots stationed at the Wendover Air Force Base, posing for a panoramic photograph in front of one of their planes.
Comment	The Wendover Air Force Base was only in active existence from 1941-1947. It was used as an isolated testing and training ground for the Manhattan Project (World War II atomic bomb project). This plane is a B-17E.
Rights Management	Digital Image © 2002 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution	Utah State Historical Society
Relation	Shipler Commercial Photographers, Series P
Identifier	39222000702808
Source format	Panorama Film Negative
Source size	19.7 inches x 7.62 inches
Source physical description	Good condition.
Source donors	Shipler, William H.
Source donation date	1988
Type	Image
Format.Use	image/jpeg
Resolution	TIFF: 800 ppi
Bit depth	8-bit grayscale
Dimensions	JPEG: 15790 x 6098 pixels
Scanning device	Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner
Date.Digital	2002-07-15
Scanned by	Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Metadata cataloger	Haley Q. Petersen
Collection Information	http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00275/

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