Search Results
Aerial photograph of Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, circa early 1960s
Date
1960 to 1965
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of the airport at Hughes' aircraft plant in Culver City, California. The airport's runway was in operation from 1941 to 1985.
Image
Photograph of mechanics with the Lockheed 14 aircraft, July 10, 1938
Date
1938-07-10
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of mechanics working on the Lockheed 14 aircraft. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Filling up the take with gasoline on Howard Hughes' plane in preparation for a take-off for Paris. At Floyd Bennett Field. July 1938."
Image
Photograph of the fuselage section of the Hughes Flying Boat being moved 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.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes and Dave Evans on the Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
Date
1947-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes with his flight engineer and Dave Evans, radio operator, preparing for the Flying Boat's taxi test the next day. The group is shown on the flight deck of the 24,000 horsepower craft. The Flying Boat was assembled on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.
Image
Photograph of a worker at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Press release attached to back of photo: "A roughneck fits a new Hughes Jet bit into the drill collar preparatory to running the drill stem into the hold. In 1953 more than 500,000 rock bits produced by the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, Texas, were used in the United States alone. The invention of the rock bit by Howard R. Hughes, Sr., made it possible to drill far deeper into the earth beyond the shallow oil deposits which are now practically exhausted. Without rotary drilling equipment of this kind the world might revert to a horse and buggy economy."
Image
GM-Hughes Electronics first shares of stock distributed, 1987
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: N/A
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
The Exhibitor, 1948 July 7
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00376
Collection Name: Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
Collection Name: Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
Archival Component
Alternatives, 1982 July 4
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00363
Collection Name: Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
Box/Folder: Box 04
Collection Name: Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component
Midpointe, 1993 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 117
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 117
Archival Component
Photograph of equipment panels of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, October 31, 1947
Date
1947-10-31
Archival Collection
Description
The control panel of HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, on Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor.
Image