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Crowd standing outside City Hall while Howard Hughes and his crew get their picture taken in celebration of Hughes's completion of his around-the-world flight 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 12
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 12
Archival Component
Photograph of a crowd greeting Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of a crowd of people gathering to greet Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "17. Rail birds, part of crowd that waited all nite. International news. (Evening Herald)."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes' plane at Floyd Bennet Airfield, New York, August 20, 1938
Date
1938-08-20
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photograph: "Hughes sets new transcontinental transport mark. Floyd Bennet Field, NY--- Howard Hughes, millionaire flier, setting his famous round-the-world transport plane down here, early August 20th, after a record-smashing flight from Los Angeles. Hughes and three companions completed the trip in 10 hours 32 minutes and 20 seconds, shattering the record of 11 hours and five minutes set four years ago by Tommy Tomlinson. The flight was made most of the way in the substratosphere at an average altitude of 17, 000 feet. Credit Line ACME."
Image
Photograph of the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 2013
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of the New York Police Force awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "More than 1000 members of New York Police Force lined up on runway at Floyd Bennett Airport awaiting Howard Hughes and crew." Typed onto a second piece of paper attached to the image: "Hughes gives cops a busy day. New York - More than 1,000 members of New York's "finest" were on hand at Floyd Bennett Field as a record crowd gathered to welcome Howard Hughes and his crew. 4/14/38."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes in a plane, Glendale, California, August 20, 1938
Date
1938-08-20
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes at the controls of plane before leaving Glendale, Calif., on a nonstop flight to New York. 8-20-38."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes talking to an unidentified man, Chicago, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes conversing with an unidentified man after landing the Lockheed 14 aircraft in Chicago.
Image
Howard Hughes in cockpit of Lockheed-14 before take-off from Floyd Bennet Field in New York, 1938 July 10
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 04
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 04
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and other men, circa 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Huges (second from left) standing with unidentified men in a building possibly located in Texas.
Image
Howard Hughes walking through a crowd, 1938
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 15
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Archival Component
Banquet dedicated to Howard Hughes in Texas, 1938
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 15
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Archival Component