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Hughes H-1 Racer, Newark, New Jersey, 1937 January
Level of Description
File
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 28
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes emerging from his Douglas DC-3, New York, April, 1947
Date
1947-04
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes emerging from his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.
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Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
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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Howard Hughes with two others inside the Hughes Tool Company factory, 1938 July 30
Level of Description
File
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 05
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 05
Archival Component
Howard Hughes and employees visiting Hughes Tool Company in Houston, Texas, 1938 July 30
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 08
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 08
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes giving a news conference next to his DC-3, New York, 1947
Date
1947-04
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and two men, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938
Date
1938-07-30
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (rt.)with two other unidentified men inside the Hughes Tool Co. factory in Houston.
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Map showing the territories of New Mexico and Utah, 1855
Date
1855
Description
'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the South'n. Dist. of New York.' Scale [ca. 1:4,752,000. 1 in. to approx. 75 miles] (W 120°--W 102°/N 43°--N 32°). Shows natural features, and populated places, wagon route, proposed railroad routes and explorers' routes. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.Hand colored. Atlas p. number in lower-right margin: 51. Decorative border. J.H. Colton & Co.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the Lockheed 14 aircraft.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14, Los Angeles, California, July 4, 1938
Date
1938-07-04
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14 in Los Angeles, California. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes off on first leaf of flight to Paris. Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, Millionaire oil man and speed flyer, at the controls of his huge Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" as it took off from here for its leisurely flight to New York, from where Hughes and his crew will fly to Paris and perhaps around the world. 7/4/1938 Credit line (ACME)."
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