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Photograph of Hughes Flying Boat section being moved to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, June 15, 1946
Date
1946-06-15
Archival Collection
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. Date stamped on back of photo.
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Photograph of the HK-1, Hughes Flying boat, as it returns from its historic test flight, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A side view of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, the world's largest plane, which successfully completed its first flight. The eight 3,000 horsepower engines lifted the craft from the waters of Los Angeles Harbor with Hughes at the controls. The plane is 219 ft long.
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Union Pacific Railroad: contains ten rolls of railroad track profiles and maps between Oakland, California and Salt Lake City, Utah, 1907 July 25
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 211
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 211
Archival Component
Alternatives, 1982 July 4
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
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Collection Number: MS-00363
Collection Name: Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
Box/Folder: Box 04
Collection Name: Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component
The Exhibitor, 1948 July 7
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00376
Collection Name: Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
Collection Name: Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
Archival Component
Midpointe, 1993 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 117
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 117
Archival Component
Final assembly, 1946 July 12
Level of Description
Item
Scope and Contents
This sheet contains an index of mechanical component locations referencing some of the other sheets.
Archival Collection
Edward C. Light Schematic Drawings of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" Seaplane
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Collection Number: MS-00920
Collection Name: Edward C. Light Schematic Drawings of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" Seaplane
Box/Folder: Roll 01
Collection Name: Edward C. Light Schematic Drawings of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" Seaplane
Box/Folder: Roll 01
Archival Component
Barracks, 1941 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Nellis Air Force Base Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00028
Collection Name: Nellis Air Force Base Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Nellis Air Force Base Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and Dave Evans on the Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
Date
1947-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes with his flight engineer and Dave Evans, radio operator, preparing for the Flying Boat's taxi test the next day. The group is shown on the flight deck of the 24,000 horsepower craft. The Flying Boat was assembled on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.
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Photograph of a worker at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Press release attached to back of photo: "A roughneck fits a new Hughes Jet bit into the drill collar preparatory to running the drill stem into the hold. In 1953 more than 500,000 rock bits produced by the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, Texas, were used in the United States alone. The invention of the rock bit by Howard R. Hughes, Sr., made it possible to drill far deeper into the earth beyond the shallow oil deposits which are now practically exhausted. Without rotary drilling equipment of this kind the world might revert to a horse and buggy economy."
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