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Photograph of the landing of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft, New York, July 14, 1938

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Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white, aerial view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft performing its final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Journey's End for World Fliers! Floyd Bennett Airport, N. Y. ---- The "World's Fair 1939.," Howard Hughes' silver monoplane, shown on the ground just after it landed here, concluding an amazing globe-girdling flight in total elapsed time of 3 days, 19 hours, 10 seconds. A crowd of officials surround the plane. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38."

Digital ID

whh000819

Physical Identifier

0373_0535
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Citation

whh000819. Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection, 1930-1950. PH-00373. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d16q1sq3q

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Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Date Digitized

2013-10-02

Extent

6060 x 4977 pixels
10.10 x 8.30 inches
90,482,740 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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image/tiff