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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others, Terminal Island, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Surprise To Everyone - San Pedro, Calif. : Millionaire planemaker Howard Hughes is surrounded by members of the press after successfully taking his 200-ton flying boat into the air in a surprise flight during initial taxi tests in Los Angeles harbor. Credit (ACME) 11/5/47."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Howard Hughes Flying Boat at anchor, Terminal Island. (battleships in background) Long Beach, Cal."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat being taken out for an unscheduled test run in Long Beach, California.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes speaking to the press, Culver City, California, July 30, 1947
Date
1947-07-30
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Losing Money on Flying Boat, Says Hughes, Culver City, Calif.: Howard Hughes (center, facing camera) makes his first appearance before the press since the start of the senate investigation into his multi-million dollar plane contracts. Hughes said the government is getting its $18,000,000 worth out of his big, eight-engined flying boat but he's losing money. the plane has yet to be flown. Credit (ACME). 7-30-47."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes, surrounded by crowds, as he stands before a microphone after landing his Lockheed 14 aircraft for the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York.
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Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat wing under construction, Culver City, California, June 1, 1945
Date
1945-06-01
Archival Collection
Description
View of construction of one of the wings of the Hughes Flying Boat in a hangar at the Hughes Aircraft Company, June 1, 1945. Scaffolding is seen underneath the wing.
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Photograph of Hughes in cockpit after record-breaking flight, Newark (N.J.), January 19, 1937
Date
1937-01-19
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes after breaking his own cross-country speed record, January 19, 1937. Inscription with image reads: "Howard Hughes at Newark Airport. 1/37." For more information, see Image 0373 0241 whh000519.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Northrop Gamma Racer, January 1936
Date
1936-01
Archival Collection
Description
Men positioning aircraft.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Lily Pons, Beverly Hills, California, November 8, 1938
Date
1938-11-08
Archival Collection
Description
Lily Pons (left), Howard Hughes (center), and an unidentified man (right) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Text printed on an attached strip of paper: "Noted flier and his hostess at cocktail party Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, noted flier, with Lily Pons, singing star, as he attended the cocktail party given by Miss Pons at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Credit Line (ACME) 11/8/38 NY LOND PAR."
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Photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat in transit to Terminal Island, California, 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946. Photo includes image of a blimp used to take some of the aerial photographs.
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