Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2231 - 2240 of 119038

Howard Cannon and Colonel W. H. Erwin at the United States Embassy: photographic print and correspondence

Date

1960-09

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Taken during Howard Cannon's visit to England for a briefing on the Seventh Air Division and Third Air Force. Handwritten on verso: "L to R Col. W. H. Erwin, Deputy Chief Staff. Intelligence, 3rd Air Force Senator Howard W. Cannon, U.S. Senator (Nev.)"

Mixed Content

Photograph of attendants inspecting a plane, Brooklyn, New York, September 30, 1937

Date

1937-09-30

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Hughes Buys New Plane. Attendants at the Floyd Bennet Airport, in Brooklyn, New York, inspecting the tire on the plane Howard Hughes recently purchased from the Sikorsky Company. Hughes accepted delivery September 30th, and flew the plane from Bridgeport. The tire blew as he was making a test landing. No other damage was done. Credit Line (ACME) 9/30/37

Image

New Year's Eve Party: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1960 (year approximate)

Description

Unidentified individuals laugh and celebrate during a New Year's Eve party at an unknown location.

Image

Photograph of Howard Huges with N. M. Stefano and Rea Hopper, Oct. 23, 1952

Date

1952-10-23

Description

Howard Hughes (center) standing under the XH-17 (Flying Crane) with N. M. Stefano (left) and Rea Hopper (right).

Image

Hughes Racer at the Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 1937

Date

1937-01

Description

The black and white view of spectators viewing Hughes Racer located in front of the Administration Building at the Newark Airport.

Image

Howard Cannon with Hecker, a member of the United States Air Force: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

Image

Hughes Racer at the Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 1937

Date

1937-01

Description

The black and white view of the Hughes Racer at Newark Airport after setting new transcontinental record of 332 miles an hour.

Image

Senators Howard Cannon, Clifford P. Case, and Chris Dodd at Edward Air Force Base: photographic print and correspondence

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Individuals are briefing on new applications of rocket propulsion.

Mixed Content

Photograph of Howard Hughes under the second XF-11, April 3, 1947

Date

1947-04-03

Description

Howard Hughes prior to test-piloting the second XF-11 prototype, a duplicate of the plane which crashed on July 7 the previous year.

Image