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Photograph of Howard Hughes at a U.S. Coast Guard Station, January 15, 1938
Date
1938-01-15
Archival Collection
Description
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Howard Hughes being carried ashore after arrival in amphibian airplane at U.S. Coast Guard Station, Jamaica Bay, B.W.I.
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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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Photograph of Howard Hughes after test flying Spruce Goose, San Pedro, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes after he performed an unexpected test run of his Spruce Goose in Sand Pedro, California.
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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."
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Members of the Howard Hughes around-the-world flight: Thomas Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, radio engineer; Ed Lund, mechanic; and H. P. Connor, co-navigator, as they rode in the welcoming parade in New York City, 1938 July 15
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 10
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Archival Component
Fourth of July menu, The Windsor, 1896 July 04
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00793
Collection Name: Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 10
Collection Name: Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 10
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes with Cary Grant and President Miguel Alem?n Vald?s of Mexico, February 18, 1947
Date
1947-02-18
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (left), Cary Grant (right), and Miguel Alem?n Vald?s, President of Mexico (standing) in 1947.
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft over New York City, July 1938
Date
1938-07
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes plane in flight over New York City, July 1938
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft over New York City, July 1938
Date
1938-07
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes plane in flight over New York City, July 1938
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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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