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Aerial photograph of Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Aerial view of the main office and plant of the Hughes Tool Company, in Houston, Texas.

Image

Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."

Image

Photograph of the first XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 3, 1947

Date

1946-07-03

Description

The XF-11 plane before its first flight at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California.

Image

Men working on Hughes rock drilling bit piece 5411-482 at the Hughes Tool company in Houston, Texas, approximately 1950-1959

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16

Archival Component

General Ira C. Eaker, the Vice President of Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft, giving an unidentified man an award, approximately 1940-1959

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16

Archival Component

Hughes H-1 Racer, Newark, New Jersey, 1937 January

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

Archival Component

Rawhide Nevada by Hugh Shamburger, 1970

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Dorothy Dorothy Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00352
Collection Name: Dorothy Dorothy Papers
Box/Folder: Box 5

Archival Component

Hughes Airport Center: CER, 1988

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
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Collection Number: MS-00855
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 003

Archival Component

John Hughes: store building, 1952

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
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Collection Number: MS-00855
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 004

Archival Component

Hughes Access Ladders: billing, 1987

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00855
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 090

Archival Component