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# City historical images take flight By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/city-historical-images-take-flight-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-01-28T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:41:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Real Estate & Housing, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Researchers, students and history buffs will enjoy sets of images recently added to the Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.

Now available on the library’s Web site, they display World War II activities at the Douglas Aircraft plant at Clover Field. One dramatic set shows the camouflage over the Douglas Aircraft plant, and a second set shows workers, housing and the transit strike at the time. The third set illustrates the DC1 aircraft, and the manufacture and flight of the DC3, DC4 and DC7.

Image archives librarian Cynni Murphy said more images, including blimps, Pearl Harbor Day, Douglas portraits, and historical pictures of the original Douglas plant at 26th Street and Wilshire Boulevard, will soon also be available online. The images were copied from the collection of the Museum of Flying with the assistance of an $8,000 grant from the Friends of the Library, which funded duplicating, digitizing and cropping the photographs. They illustrate Santa Monica life during the war, including both aviation and details of cars, housing, clothing and employment. To view them, log on the library Web site, www.smpl.org, click on Image Archives, and select the subject Douglas Aircraft.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 28, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012804.pdf?ref=smdp.com)