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Daily World (New York City, New York), 1977 November

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Jean Ford Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00025
Collection Name: Jean Ford Papers
Box/Folder: Box 37

Archival Component

Photograph a crowd awaiting watching Howard Hughes land, New York, July 14, 2013

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view Mayor Laguardia and Grover Whelen watched Howard Hughes land in his Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Mayor Laguardia (left) and Grover Whelen looking skyward as they see the approaching Howard Hughes and his globe girdlers complete A Round The World flight, 7-24-38. (Press Association)."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes after hearing, Culver City, California, August 15, 1947

Date

1947-08-15

Description

A view of Howard Hughes attending an informal press conference in Culver City, California, after Hughes left the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee hearing in Washington.

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Photograph of Lake Mead approaching the Lost City restorations, spring 1938

Date

1938

Description

The waters of Lake Mead are approaching the Lost City restorations

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Map of California and territories of New Mexico and Utah, circa 1861

Date

1856 to 1866

Description

40 x 60 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Atlas plate numbers 54 and 55 in the upper corners. Shows forts, trails, exploration routes, drainage, mail steamship routes, physical features, Indian tribes, and historic sites. The geographic region of Southwest is referred to as the New Southwest. Original publisher: Johnson .

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Photograph of basement stairway, Boulder City (Nev.), January 10, 1938

Date

1938-01-10

Description

Foot of stairway in basement room of Boulder City Museum. Camera is facing east (approximation).

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Affidavits, evidence, and correspondence regarding Hughes Tool Company v. Benjamin Fielding, Commissioner of Licenses, City of New York, New York, 1947 February 07 to 1948 March 08

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 139 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Photograph of XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 7, 1946

Date

1946-07-07

Description

First test flight of the XF-11 at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California in 1946.

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Photograph Howard Hughes arrival at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 2013

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of a crowd of people awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Just before world fliers landed, Floyd Bennett Airport, N.Y. -- A small army of policemen pictured on the runway here shortly before Howard Hughes and his four companions landed, ending their Round-The-World flight. Note newsreel photographers on the right. In the background is the tent from which Hughes and his fellow fliers spoke to a vast radio audience. Credit line (ACME) 7(3/4)/14/38."

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Photograph of a wing of Hughes' Flying Boat leaving Culver City, 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.

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