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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
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Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Howard Hughes standing by the Hughes H-1 Racer at the Newark, New Jersey airport, 1937 January 19
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Howard Hughes standing by the Hughes H-1 Racer at the Newark, New Jersey airport, 1937 January 19
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Howard Hughes standing by the Hughes H-1 Racer at the Newark, New Jersey airport, 1937 January 19
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Howard Hughes standing by the Hughes H-1 Racer at the Newark, New Jersey airport, 1937 January 19
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, July 10, 1938
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New York Hard Bop Quintet: multiple, 1995 July 6
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Collection Name: KNPR: "Monday Night Jazz" Program Documentation and Recordings
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Distinguished Service Award, New York Botanical Garden, 1987
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Collection Name: Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
Box/Folder: Box 13
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News Zero: New York Times and the Bomb, book, 2004
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Collection Name: Human Radiation Experiments Records
Box/Folder: Box 03
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