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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

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Date

1940 to 1959

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Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."

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whh000414

Physical Identifier

0321_0440
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    whh000414. 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/d1wd3q78w

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    Digital Provenance

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

    Date Digitized

    2012-09-28

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    4812 x 5718 pixels
    8.02 x 9.53 inches
    82,545,928 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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    image/tiff