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New York-New York - Entryway, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006

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Item

Archival Collection

Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01

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New York-New York - Exterior, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01

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New York-New York - Interior, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01

Archival Component

Photograph of the first XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 3, 1947

Date

1946-07-03

Description

The XF-11 plane before its first flight at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California.

Image

Aerial photograph of Hughes' flying boat docked at harbor, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947

Date

1947-07-16

Description

Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken July 16, 1947. "Hughes Aircraft" stamped on the back of the image.

Image

Photograph of a man working at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT TEST In a block-long laboratory at Houston, Texas, the Hughes Tool Company can simulate oil drilling conditions anywhere in the world. Here a Hughes bit is tested on a hard formation. Howard Hughes' father invented the rock bit in 1908 and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his fabulous industrial empire in motion pictures, air transportation, aeronautical research and design, aircraft manufacture, electronics, armament and brewing."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, Ed Lund, and Harry Connor, Houston, Texas July 30, 1938

Date

1938-07-30

Description

Howard Hughes standing with others in Houston, Texas, during a celebration of his around-the-world event.

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Photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat leaving its Culver City hangar, California, 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 a jet plane designed by Howard Hughes, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

A plane, designed by Howard Hughes, parked on a field with a group of people in the foreground. The plane is numbered, CF-EJO-X, and it is an Avro Canada Jetline.

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