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Howard Hughes's aircraft in a hangar, approximately 1937-1939
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 17
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 17
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes, New York, New York, September 12, 1946
Date
1946-09-12
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Just A Few Words Please, New York -- Howard Hughes says a few words for the radio audience just after his arrival here late last night, Sept. 11th, from Kansas City. The multi-millionaire movie producer and flier flew the distance from Kansas City to New York in four hours and 38 minutes, piloting his converted B-23 army transport. Creditline (ACME) 9/12/46."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Culver City, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hercules Fuselage Leaves Hangar, Calver City, Calif. - The hull of Howard Hughes' huge cargo flying boat, the Hercules, largest airplane in the world leaves hangar in the Culver City, Calif., plant to begin a 28-mile trip to Terminal Island, Calif., by truck and dolly. the 220-foot long hull-fuselage will follow the path of the wing sections to the graving dock where the air giant will be assembled. Credit Line (ACME) 6/16/46."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the XF-11, after his successful test flight, April 5, 1947
Date
1947-04-05
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes's Sikorsky S-43 at Lake Mead, circa 1943
Date
1943
Archival Collection
Description
A close up view of Howard Hughes's Sikorsky S-43 on the shore of Lake Mead after being retrieved from the water.
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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
To request this item in person:
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 the Hughes rock drill bit type R-1, circa 1945-1955
Date
1945 to 1955
Archival Collection
Description
A close-up of a hard formation rock bit type R-1, the engineering marvel on which the hughes fortune was founded.
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Telegram from W. M. Jeffers (Omaha) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 18, 1938
Date
1938-06-18
Archival Collection
Description
Jeffers, having read a Las Vegas Review-Journal article about the water shortage in Las Vegas, asks Bracken to advise on possible rates revisions for those using evaporative water coolers.
Text
Magazines with articles about Howard Hughes, 1947-1976
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
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Collection Number: MS-00380
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 47, Box 48
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 47, Box 48
Archival Component
Photograph of people at Hughes Executive Terminal, Las Vegas, 1972
Date
1972
Archival Collection
Description
Description provided with image: "Temporary customs operation set up at Hughes Executive Terminal in Las Vegas In San Francisco by Scandinavian Airlines to process foreign passengers from 128 countries, here to attend the American Mining Congress. Las Vegas was designated an International Port of Entry in 1972.
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