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Howard Hughes at the controls of a Trans World Airlines Constellation demonstrating its new radar safety device, 1947 May 01

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Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 11

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947

Date

1947

Description

A view of Howard Hughes smiling and sitting at a desk.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947

Date

1947

Description

A view of Howard Hughes smiling and sitting at a desk.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1947

Date

1947

Description

A view of Howard Hughes talking to an unidentified man.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Earl Martyn in the cockpit of the Hughes Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Howard Hughes (right) and Earl Martyn inside of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, which was near completion on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Hughes Flying Boat, also called the Spruce Goose, was the largest plane in the world.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes at a luncheon, March 4, 1937

Date

1937-03-04

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Attending the Advertising Club Luncheon in his honor, Howard Hughes is shown with (left to right) Eddie Rickenbacher, Frank Hawks, H. B. Lequattes, and Dick Merrill.

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Hughes's streamlined Stratoliner for another record-breaking transcontinental flight from Glendale, California, to New York, 1939 August 30

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Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 18

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, Washington, August 06, 1947

Date

1947-08-06

Description

Description given with photo: "Howard Hughes In Washington, Washington: In good humor and wearing his battered "good luck" felt hat that he wore in his recent plane crash, plane manufacturer, Howard Hughes leaves national airport following his overnight flight from the west coast to appear before the Senate War Investigating Sub-committee today (Aug. 6). Credit (ACME)."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 06, 1947

Date

1947-08-06

Description

Description given with photo: "Hughes Testifies, Washington: A candid view of plane manufacturer Howard Hughes (above) testifying before the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee today, August 6. hughes opened his testimony with a charge that Senator Owen Brewster (R. ME.), a committee member, offered to call off the senate investigation of his (Hughes) war plane contracts, if Hughes agreed to an air line merger. Credit (ACME) 8/7/47."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1937

Date

1937

Description

Howard Hughes posing with an unidentified man, in front of a flag.

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