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Photograph of a parade for Howard Hughes, Chicago, 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of people leaning out of building windows to see Howard Hughes at a parade in Chicago.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947

Date

1947-05-03

Description

A view of Howard Hughes installing a radar safety system for passenger planes in Culver City, California.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes amongst crowd, Chicago, 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of Howard Hughes walking through a crowd after emerging from the Lockheed 14 aircraft he landed in Chicago.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes amongst crowd, Chicago, 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of Howard Hughes walking through a crowd after emerging from the Lockheed 14 aircraft he landed in Chicago.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes amongst crowd, Chicago, 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of Howard Hughes walking through a crowd after emerging from the Lockheed 14 aircraft he landed in Chicago.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes amongst crowd, Chicago, 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of Howard Hughes walking through a crowd after emerging from the Lockheed 14 aircraft he landed in Chicago.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Jessee Jones, July 21, 1938

Date

1938-07-21

Description

Description printed on back of photograph: "Leaving the State Department. Left to right: Jesse Jones, Howard Hughes, Harold Brayman. July 1938."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in Chicago, July 29, 1938

Date

1938-07-29

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Chicago crowd greeting Howard Hughes when he arrived there. 7-29-38"

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others, Los Angeles, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Howard Hughes standing in the doorway of his plane and shaking the hand of an unidentified individual amongst a crowd of men at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Los Angeles.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' plane at Floyd Bennet Airfield, New York, August 20, 1938

Date

1938-08-20

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."

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