Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes tests the Hughes plane. Seattle--Howard Hughes (right), millionaire aviation enthusiast and record holder, shown with Edmund T. Allen, Boeing test engineer, before they made a recent test flight in a Boeing-built Stratoliner. The huge machine was equipped with extra fuel tanks for the test. Hughes did not reveal the reasons for his interest in the four-motored, 30 passenger plane, designed for substratosphere flight."
Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14 in Los Angeles, California. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes off on first leaf of flight to Paris. Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, Millionaire oil man and speed flyer, at the controls of his huge Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" as it took off from here for its leisurely flight to New York, from where Hughes and his crew will fly to Paris and perhaps around the world. 7/4/1938 Credit line (ACME)."
Materials contain photographic prints, photographic slides, and photographic negatives of Boulder City, Nevada from 1930 to 1969. The photographs depict buildings in Boulder City, including City Hall, the Bureau of Reclamation headquarters, the Boulder Theatre, the Boulder Dam Hotel, the Boulder City airport, the Visitors Bureau, businesses, and houses.
Archival Collection
L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00100 Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection Box/Folder: N/A