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Photograph of the fuselage of Hughes Flying Boat en route to Terminal Island, California, 1946

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Date

1946

Description

A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.

Digital ID

whh000316

Physical Identifier

0321_0373
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    Citation

    whh000316. Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs, 1916-1997. PH-00321. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1930p22t

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    Digital Provenance

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

    Date Digitized

    2012-09-06

    Extent

    5427 x 4162 pixels
    9.045 x 6.937 inches
    67,762,402 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Format

    image/tiff