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Photograph of worker in Hughes Machine Shop, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool and joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for the Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering departments. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.
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Newspaper clippings about Howard Hughes' life, 1946-1976
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00380
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 41, Box 42, Box 43
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 41, Box 42, Box 43
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes leaving the Northrop Gamma Racer, Newark, New Jersey, January 13, 1936
Date
1936-01-13
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.
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Aerial photograph of Hughes' Hercules flying boat aircraft, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947
Date
1947-07-16
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken on July 16, 1947.
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STK109C-Howard Hughes Photos and Patent Models, undated
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 11, Digital File 00
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 11, Digital File 00
Archival Component
Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "New York reception for Howard Hughes and his four companions after they completed a round the world flight. 7/15/38."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes giving a news conference next to his DC-3, New York, 1947
Date
1947-04
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.
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