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Photograph of the fuselage of Hughes Flying Boat being transported 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

whh000303

Physical Identifier

0321_0377
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Citation

whh000303. 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/d1zs2km0b

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Digital Provenance

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

Date Digitized

2012-09-04

Extent

5401 x 3797 pixels
9.002 x 6.328 inches
61,523,671 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff