Missile Bases in Arkansas, Air Force Missile Sites (left to right: Harry, Donald, and Dale Mayette of Waddington, NY) near Searcy, Ark., December 16, 1961 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1961.

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Missile Bases in Arkansas, Air Force Missile Sites (left to right: Harry, Donald, and Dale Mayette of Waddington, NY) near Searcy, Ark., December 16, 1961 [View 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1961.

Negative taken for December 20, 1961, Arkansas Gazette article "The Mayettes of New York Pleased With Arkansas Life," B1:2. Painters Harry, Donald and Dale Mayette of Waddington, Saint Lawrence, New York, work at the Titan missile launcher construction site at Searcy, White County, Arkansas, an United States Air Force Project.

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Arkansas History Commission

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