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Menu for the Surrey Sportsman's Club, The Secretary's Feast, July 5, 1899, City of New York Restaurant
Date
1899-07-05
Archival Collection
Description
Note: At top of menu: Hand Court, Bedford Row, Holborn, W.C Restaurant: City of New York Restaurant Location: London, England
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in his plane, January 1936
Date
1936-01
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of Howard Hughes posing in the cockpit of his plane, probably the Northrop Gamma Racer.
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Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, June 12, 1946
Date
1946-06-12
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Prepare to Move "Hercules" Wing, Culver City, Calif. -- One of the two 34-ton wing sections of Howard Hughes' eight-engined Hercules, world's largest flying boat, is put on house-moving dollies in Culver City, Calif., before beginning the 28-mile journey to Los Angeles Harbor, where the mammoth airplane will be assembled for its first test flight, supposedly around the first of the year. A two-day trip will see the wing- 19 feet high, 49 feet wide, 160 feet long - at the $200,000 graving dock at Terminal Island, Calif., which was built specifically for the assembly of the craft. Note comparative size of men working on the wind. Credit (ACME). 6-12-46."
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Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, circa 1946
Date
1945 to 1947
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules.
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Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, circa 1946
Date
1945 to 1947
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules.
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Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, circa 1946
Date
1945 to 1947
Archival Collection
Description
A view of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules.
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Photograph of Hiram "Tommy" Thurlow and the Lockheed 14, New York, New York, July 9, 1938
Date
1938-07-09
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of view of Hiram "Tommy" Thurlow and the Lockheed 14 aircraft in New York, New York. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Rolling Howard Hughes' plane of hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, with Lt. Thomas Thurlow, one of the navigators, calibrating the compass."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and a group of men with the Hughes XH-17, October 23, 1952
Date
1952-10-23
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (second from left) standing under the blade of the XH-17, Flying Crane with L-R: Rea Hopper, Director of the Aeronautical Division, Hughes Aircraft Company; Hughes; Clyde Jones, Director of Engineering, Hughes Tool Company Aeronautical Division; Warren Reed, Assistant; Colonel Carl E. Jackson, Air Research and Development Headquarters; Gale. J. Moore, pilot.
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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1936 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes's Stratoliner surrounded by people.
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Howard Hughes at the Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 1937
Date
1937-01
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes alighting from his plane at Newark Airport after establishing a new transcontinental record.
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