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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946
Date
1946-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hercules Wing Squeezes Through Town Redondo Beach, Calif. - School children throng to watch the 34-ton wing section of Howard Hughes' Hercules, world's largest flying boat, as it is cautiously engineered on house-moving dollies through Redondo Beach, Calif., on the way to specially built $200,000 dock at Terminal Island, Calif. Creditline (ACME). 6/13/46."
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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946
Date
1946-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Giant Wing Nears End of Journey, Long Beach, Calif. -- Traveling at a snails pace of 2 1/2 miles per hour, hauling truck slowly pulls a wing of Howard Hughes' mammoth plane across a pontoon bridge in the Tideland Oil fields. Almost half the tremendous job of transporting the $200,000,000 flying boat to its destination has been completed. Credit (ACME). 6-14-46."
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft landing, Chicago, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
A view of crowds and the press surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft after it had landed in Chicago.
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Howard Cannon with an unidentified man: photographic print
Date
1992-06-29
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Hawthorne, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Power Lines Removed for Giant Flying Boat Hawthorne, Calif. -- Pacific Electric workers remove power lines in the way of Howard Hughes' 220-foot-long Flying Boat fuselage as it inches its way as Hawthorne, Calif., enroute to plane assembly as Terminal Island, Calif. The gigantic hull requires highway clearance of 40 feet. NY Credit (ACME) 6/16/46."
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Photograph of Shirley Wengert, circa 1938
Date
1937 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Young Shirley Wengert posing in front of a fence and house. Here she is estimated to be around three years old.
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Latin Quarter (New York): scrapbook on Latin Quarter nightclub show (created by former LQ stage manager Lee Murray for Donn Arden), 1950s-1960s
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Donn Arden Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00425
Collection Name: Donn Arden Papers
Box/Folder: Box 3
Collection Name: Donn Arden Papers
Box/Folder: Box 3
Archival Component
Report: "Status of Illegal Gambling and Gambling Enforcement in New York City" by Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to the Select Legislative Committee on Off-track Betting, 1964
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 163
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 163
Archival Component