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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), July 15, 1941

Date

1941-07-15

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken reporting to Strong that in relation to the water due to the Stewart family, a miner's inch equals 11.22 gallons per minute.

Text

Sound cue sheets, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, copy for New York, New York showing, 1930 June 22

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 026 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

James Otto Williamson, employment application to Southern Surety Company of New York, New York, 1931 June 17

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 478 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, June 12, 1946

Date

1946-06-12

Description

Description given with photo: "Prepare to Move "Hercules" Wing, Culver City, Calif. -- One of the two 34-ton wing sections of Howard Hughes' eight-engined Hercules, world's largest flying boat, is put on house-moving dollies in Culver City, Calif., before beginning the 28-mile journey to Los Angeles Harbor, where the mammoth airplane will be assembled for its first test flight, supposedly around the first of the year. A two-day trip will see the wing- 19 feet high, 49 feet wide, 160 feet long - at the $200,000 graving dock at Terminal Island, Calif., which was built specifically for the assembly of the craft. Note comparative size of men working on the wind. Credit (ACME). 6-12-46."

Image

Schematic design drawings: architectural drawings, sheets 1-8, 1964 July 20; 1964 September 15

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

This set includes an artist's perspective drawing of the building's exterior.

Archival Collection

Homer Rissman Architectural Records
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Collection Number: MS-00452
Collection Name: Homer Rissman Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Flat File 083

Archival Component

Photograph of Howard Hughes and other men, circa late 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

Howard Hughes and unidentified men surrounded by crowds.

Image

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 (right) is standing next to an unidentified man (probably a mechanic, left).

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes and other men, circa 1938

Date

1938

Description

A view of Howard Hughes smiling with unidentified men.

Image

Howard Hughes at the Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 1937

Date

1937-01

Description

Howard Hughes being welcomed at Newark Airport.

Image