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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, San Pedro, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat going on an unscheduled test run in San Pedro, California.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, San Pedro, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat going on an unscheduled test run in San Pedro, California.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Claud D. Pepper, San Pedro, California, October 03, 1947
Date
1947-10-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Pepper Sees Hughes Plane, Los Angeles, Calif.: Florida's Senator Claude D. Pepper (left) dropped into Los Angeles October 3, for a neck-cranning look at the 200-ton HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat. Pepper praised Howard Hughes (right), "for conceiving and constructing this great thing." Two of the plane's eight engines can be seen above the Senator's Head. Credit (ACME) 10/04/47."
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Photograph of Hiram "Tommy" Thurlow and the Lockheed 14, New York, New York, July 9, 1938
Date
1938-07-09
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Hiram "Tommy" Thurlow and the Lockheed 14 aircraft in New York, New York. Typed on a piece of a paper attached to the image: "Floyd Bennett Airport, N.Y. Lieut. Hiram ("Tommy") Thurlow, of the Department of Commerce re-checks Howard Hughes' sleek Lockheed L-14 Super Electra before flight to Paris. 7/9/38."
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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: "Wing of World's Largest Plane Moved, Culver city, Calif. - One of the two 34-ton wing sections of Howard Hughes' Hercules inches toward Los Angeles harbor from Culver City, Calif., on house-moving dollies. Moving along at two miles an hour to Terminal Island for assembly, the wings will be followed in the 28-mile journey in a few days by the fuselage. Second wing section can be seen in rear. Credit Line (ACME) 6/13/46."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 06, 1947
Date
1947-08-06
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "The multi-millionaire plane builder is leafing through a 92-page report of the testimony he gave the senators 6 months ago in secret session as he testified. -INP Photos by N.K. Benson- 8/6/47."
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Photograph of a party of salvagers, St. Thomas, Nevada, June, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
A group of men dismantling a house and loading the fruits of their labors on a truck. The waters of the rising Lake Mead are in the foreground.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "a party of salvagers are almost too late in dismantling the last of the St. Thomas residences. (c. 1942) (photo by E. Edwards)"
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Photograph of XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 7, 1946
Date
1946-07-07
Archival Collection
Description
First test flight of the XF-11 at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California in 1946.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes with three unidentified men circa late 1940s/early 1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes shaking hands with a group of men circa late 1940s/early 1950s.
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Photograph of fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat in transit, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
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.
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