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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."
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Petroglyphs, Paiute Springs, California: photographic prints and annotated envelopes, approximately 1935 to 1938
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00163
Collection Name: Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 058, Folder 059, Folder 060, Folder 061, Folder 062, Folder 063, Folder 064
Collection Name: Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 058, Folder 059, Folder 060, Folder 061, Folder 062, Folder 063, Folder 064
Archival Component
Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1937 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A view of an unidentified plane with its propellers protected.
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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1937 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A view from below of an unidentified aircraft being hoisted on a crane.
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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1937 to 1940
Archival Collection
Description
A view from below of an unidentified aircraft being hoisted on a crane.
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Aerial photograph of the Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, circa 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of Hughes HK-1, Flying Boat. The plane was designed and built by Howard Hughes; it it shown near completion at its graving dock at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. Transcribed from note on back of photo: "World's largest airplane--After Ground tests here the plane will undergo extensive water-taxi tests."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes descending the stairway of the Constellation 069 plane, Washington D.C., April 17, 1944
Date
1944-04-17
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes descending a stairway from Constellation 069, at the Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. in 1944.
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Photograph of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, returning from its historic test flight, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed press release from back of photograph: "Howard Hughes' flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free off Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor immediately after its launching yesterday. The plane's vertical stabilizer tip rides about 80 feet above the water as the air giant floats for the first time. With Hughes at the controls, the colossal craft will get first water taxi tests today."
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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of an unidentified aircraft that is possibly being hoisted above or lowered to the ground.
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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of an unidentified aircraft that is possibly being hoisted above or lowered to the ground.
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