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Photograph of men working in the Hughes Tool Co. factory, Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Men working on Hughes rock drilling bit piece #5411-482 at the Hughes Tool company in Houston, Texas.
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Fourth of July menu, Tuesday, July 4, 1905, The Burnet House
Date
1905-07-04
Archival Collection
Description
Note: Menu includes song lyrics to "America" Menu insert: Song Lyrics Restaurant: Burnet House (Cincinnati, Ohio) Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Text
Airline Pilot magazine, 1980 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00693
Collection Name: Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
Box/Folder: Box 01
Collection Name: Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 03, 1947
Date
1947-11-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947
Date
1947-08-16
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes (right) being asked about his controversial XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane by Senator Harry Cain (left), Republican of Washington, in Culver City, California. An unidentified man sits between the two.
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Scarface, correspondence related to Chicago, Illinois censorship, 1933 August 29 to 1938 March 11
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 519 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 519 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Photograph of horse racing, Las Vegas Downs Racetrack, November 27, 1938
Date
1938-11-27
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photo of horse racing, Las Vegas Club Handicap at Las Vegas Downs Racetrack. The horse, Jeff's Pride with E. Shea mounted in the left-right, rear. Photo sleeve contains additional materials.
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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."
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United Artists Corporation distribution agreements for Caddo Company films, 1931 April 17 to 1938 September 27
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 094 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 094 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Photograph of a crowd watching the fuselage of Hughes Flying Boat in transit, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from stamp on back of photo: "June 16, 1946; Hughes Aircraft Photo." Crowds and policeman watching as a section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" was 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 June 1946. The men are raising the power lines so the fuselage can pass under.
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