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Photograph of a man working at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT TEST In a block-long laboratory at Houston, Texas, the Hughes Tool Company can simulate oil drilling conditions anywhere in the world. Here a Hughes bit is tested on a hard formation. Howard Hughes' father invented the rock bit in 1908 and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his fabulous industrial empire in motion pictures, air transportation, aeronautical research and design, aircraft manufacture, electronics, armament and brewing."

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Photograph of a jet plane designed by Howard Hughes, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

A plane, designed by Howard Hughes, parked on a field with a group of people in the foreground. The plane is numbered, CF-EJO-X, and it is an Avro Canada Jetline.

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Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat fuselage, in transit to Terminal Island, California, June 14, 1946

Date

1946-06-14

Description

Transcribed from stamp on back of photo: "June 14, 1946; Hughes Aircraft Photo." 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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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 1

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 2

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 3

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 4

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 5

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 6

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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127 New York (N.Y.), Culinary Union, 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 7

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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