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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 airplane, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 airplane in flight.
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Photograph of the Hughes Tool Company's hard formation rock bit type R-1, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes Tool Company's hard formation rock bit type R-1 was the engineering marvel on which the Hughes fortune was founded. The bit was invented by Howard Hughes' father.
Image
Photograph of Charles B. Thornton, S. Ramo, and others with the first Hughes Aircraft Company radar antenna, 1952
Date
1952
Archival Collection
Description
The first radar antenna produced at Hughes on Sept. 28, 1949 was returned for service three years later at the opening of a new service shop. Pictured from left to right are Charles B. Thornton, S. Ramo, Ray B. Parkhurst, and Harold George
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Photograph of Howard Hughes testifying before the Senate War Investigating Committee, Washington D.C., August 6, 1947
Date
1947-08-06
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes speaks into a microphone as he testifies before the Senate War Investigating Committee, August 6, 1947, in Washington, D.C.
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Photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat leaving its Culver City hangar, 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.
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Summey, Barbara, Hughes Aviation, 1976 February 06
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 42
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 42
Archival Component
Hughes Airport glass shop, 1974 May 02
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 50
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 50
Archival Component
Hughes Airport Shops advertising, 1974 April 02
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 50
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 50
Archival Component
Aviation. Hughes Airport. Contains mailgram, 1979 September
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Cannon Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00002
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 04 (96th Session)
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Papers
Box/Folder: Box 04 (96th Session)
Archival Component
Exterior of new Bank of Nevada: photographic print
Date
1958-11-09
Archival Collection
Description
Historic Events in Henderson's History. New Bank of Nevada. (7 West Pacific, Henderson, Nevada.) It opened February 8, 1954.
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