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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Clinton Twiss, Hollywood, November 1939

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Date

1939-11

Description

Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes gets air award. Hollywood, Cal. - Howard Hughes, millionaire spotman flyer, with special events announcer Clinton Twiss at the Hollywood studios of NBC where the flyer was cited for his round-the-world flight in 91 hours and 14 minutes. Hughes was recently awarded the Collier Trophy given annually for the "greatest achievement in aviation in America."

Digital ID

whh001242

Physical Identifier

0373_957-AA
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Citation

whh001242. 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/d1jm23p4x

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Digital Provenance

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

Date Digitized

2013-12-16

Extent

4728 x 6163 pixels
7.88 x 10.27 inches
87,416,872 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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image/tiff