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Film transparency collage featuring signs from several of Hughes' properties on the Las Vegas Strip, circa 1966-1970

Date

1966 to 1970

Description

Collage of marquees of Howard Hughes' Las Vegas properties, circa late 1960s.

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

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

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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Senators Howard Cannon and Barry Goldwater, posed: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Reproduced by base photograph laboratory - Andrews AFB Washington 25, D.C."

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Police escorting Howard Hughes and his crew at the Washington Airport as his around-the-world flight came to Washington, D.C. to thank Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his cooperation in clearing their take-offs, 1938 July 21

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Members of the Howard Hughes around-the-world flight: Thomas Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, radio engineer; Ed Lund, mechanic; and H. P. Connor, co-navigator, as they rode in the welcoming parade in New York City, 1938 July 15

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10

Archival Component

Photograph of Hughes Flying Boat section being moved to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, June 15, 1946

Date

1946-06-15

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. Date stamped on back of photo.

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Nevada Associated General Contractors Association meet with Senators Howard Cannon and Paul Laxalt: photographic print

Date

1987-06-25

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon and others examining an X-15 aircraft at Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters: photographic print

Date

1963-10-26

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon and others examining an X-15 aircraft at Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters: photographic print

Date

1959-03-04 (approximate) to 1959-03-07 (approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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