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Photographs of Hughes production plants and offices, 1941-1997

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00380
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 55

Archival Component

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.

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Photograph of Welcome home, Howard! billboard, Las Vegas, 1972

Date

1972

Description

Billboard reading Welcome home, Howard!, dedicated to Howard Hughes in 1972, located on Desert Inn Road behind the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Landmark Hotel tower is seen behind the Convention Center dome.

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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."

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Newspaper clippings about Hughes employees, 1948-1976

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00380
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 49

Archival Component

Photograph of the XF-11 as it is about to take off for its first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Transcribed from attachment to photo: "NEW LONG-RANGE PLANE ANNOUNCED CULVER CITY, CALIF., The FX-11 took off today on its first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photographic planes, it was designed and built by Howard Hughes in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. It has a wing spread of 101 feet, 4 inches, and is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Army officials said it can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour and has a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947."

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Howard Cannon attends the National Air Carrier Association anniversary luncheon: photographic print

Date

1968-02

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon attends the National Air Carrier Association anniversary luncheon: photographic print

Date

1968-02

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon with Mary Shaver and three others: photographic print

Date

1981-03

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Synopsis by Howard Hawks, 1931 February 14

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 062 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component