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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Terminal Island, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Hercules at Terminal Island, California.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Terminal Island, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Hercules at Terminal Island, California.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Terminal Island, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Hercules at Terminal Island, California.

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Terminal Island, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Hercules at Terminal Island, California.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Terminal Island, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Hercules at Terminal Island, California.

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Photograph of Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

Men and women in the Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop are devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool 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 Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering divisions. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

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Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes exiting his Lockheed 14 aircraft after performing the final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Telling the world about the record-smashing flight. New York City--Under the giant wing of the huge Lockheed plane, radio men set up their microphones so that Howard Hughes and his gallant crew of four can send a few words of greeting to the world over the air waves after landing at Floyd Bennett Field on their record-smashing flight around the world. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38"

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947

Date

1947-11-02

Description

A view of the controls of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat in Long Beach, California. Howard Hughes is second from the left.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947

Date

1947-11-02

Description

A view of the controls of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat in Long Beach, California. Howard Hughes is standing and wearing a hat.

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