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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947

Date

1947-11-02

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat being prepared for a test run in Long Beach, California.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947

Date

1947-11-02

Description

A view of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat being prepared for a test run in Long Beach, California.

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Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, California, November 2, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Hughes Flying Boat hovering over the water of Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2, 1947. The Los Angeles Harbor is now known as Long Beach Harbor.

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Aerial photograph of the Hughes' Flying Boat in the Los Angeles Harbor, November, 2, 1947

Date

1947

Description

The Hughes Aircraft "Flying Boat" floating in Los Angeles Harbor with several other boats and ships.

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Photograph of the Hughes Tool Company office building, Houston, Texas, 1922

Date

1922

Description

This was the administration building for the Hughes Tool Company at the Hughes plant on Polk Avenue in Houston, Texas, 1922. The building was constructed during the winter of 1917-1918. Hughes' office was on the lower right-side of the building.

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Photograph of Elbert Edwards picking figs in St. Thomas, Nevada, June, 1938

Date

1938-06

Description

Elbert Edwards picks figs from an orchard in St. Thomas, Nevada, while standing in the rising waters of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards picking figs from an orchard in St. Thomas, Nevada as the rising waters of Lake Mead cover the town. (ca. 1938-39)"

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others, San Pedro, California, November 01, 1947

Date

1947-11-01

Description

A view of Howard Hughes and others inspecting the construction of the Spruce Goose in San Pedro, California. From left to right, the men include: Wressey C. Cocue, Homer (Dave) Roe, Dave Graig, Dave Kuans, Glenn Odeuiru, Howard Hughes, Jack Jerman, Rea Hopper, Carl Baggerger, Bill Benny, Warren Reed, and Joseph Petrali.

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

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

The Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop is 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 division. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

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Film transparency of a locomotive train in Las Vegas, circa 1938

Date

1938

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of a Virginia & Truckee locomotive promoting C.B. DeMille's motion picture, "Union Pacific."

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Photograph of Cave Valley School, Lincoln County, Nevada, 1938.

Date

1938

Description

Exterior of Cave Valley School, Lincoln County, Nevada.

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