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Photograph of engine parts of the Hughes Flying Boat being moved to Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor, 1946

Date

1946

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.

Image

Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 15, 1938

Date

1938-07-15

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft being refueled in Fairbanks, Alaska. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "C.850170 Howard Hughes' plane being re-fueled at Fairbanks, Alaska on the last lap of its round the world flight. 7/15/38."

Image

Photograph of Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

Men and women in the Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop are devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering divisions. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

Image

Photograph of Thomas Black, Howard Hughes, and Noah Dietrich at Senate War Investigating Committee hearings, Washington, D.C., August 6, 1947

Date

1947-08-06

Description

L-R: Thomas Black, Howard Hughes, Noah Dietrich during the 1947 Senate War Investigating Committee hearings in Washington, D.C.

Image

Howard Hughes shaking hands with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937 March 02

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 03

Archival Component

Howard Hughes, possibly on the set of "The Outlaw" film, approximately 1935-1939

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 18

Archival Component

Howard Hughes, possibly on the set of "The Outlaw" film, approximately 1935-1939

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 18

Archival Component

Howard Hughes speaking at the National Press Club, 1938 July 21

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Chicago, Illinois crowd greeting Howard Hughes, 1938 July 29

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Chicago, Illinois crowd greeting Howard Hughes, 1938 July 29

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 14

Archival Component