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Howard Hughes and crew flying over Los Angeles, California Hughes during a record-breaking flight, 1938 August 02
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Archival Component
Crowd gathered around-the-world circling plane of Howard Hughes in the hangar at the Grand Central Air Terminal, 1938 August 02
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Archival Component
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Abstract
The Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection depicts the activities of businessman Howard Hughes from 1930 to 1950. The photographs primarily depict aircraft flown by Hughes or designed by the Hughes Aircraft Company, including the XF-11 reconnaissance plane, the HK-1 Hercules (or "Spruce Goose"), and the Hughes H-1 Racer. The photographs also depict celebrations following Hughes's circumnavigation flight in New York City, New York and Chicago, Illinois in 1938. Lastly, the photographs include Hughes testifying in front of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program in 1947.
Archival Collection
Report: "The Thoroughbred Racing Industry in New York State: A Policy Paper" by the New York City Off-track Betting Corporation, 1978
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 165
Archival Component
Map of the city of Las Vegas, 1953
Date
Description
Image
Readers' News. London: published by Readers Union, 1938 November 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: Box 23
Archival Component
New York City's 52nd Street was a miniature Vegas Strip, undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Papers
Box/Folder: Box 14
Archival Component
People with A. C. Grant taken (National City Bank, New York photograph), undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Archie C. Grant Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Archival Component
Report: "Legal Gambling in the City of New York" by Eugene Martin Christiansen, 1990
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 163
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the first XF-11, Culver City, California, 1946
Date
Archival Collection
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