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Photograph of Howard Hughes speaking to the press, Culver City, California, July 30, 1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, and California Governor Frank Merriam at a banquet for Howard Hughes in Los Angeles, California, 1938 August 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
Flood waters have cut new channel immediately east of existing bridge, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 01
Archival Component
Map of California and territories of New Mexico and Utah, circa 1861
Date
Description
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington
Plates 54 & 55 removed from Johnson's New illustrated family atlas of the world, with descriptions geographical, statistical and historical ... New York, 1862
Title page of atlas.
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Howard Hughes sitting in the Northrop Gamma Racer in New York after setting new Miami-New York speed record, 1936 April 21
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
New Frontier images and videos, 2007 June-July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Barbara Tabach Collection on the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Committee to Save the Hughes Flying Boat newspaper clippings, 1980 July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Abstract
The Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection depicts the activities of businessman Howard Hughes from 1930 to 1950. The photographs primarily depict aircraft flown by Hughes or designed by the Hughes Aircraft Company, including the XF-11 reconnaissance plane, the HK-1 Hercules (or "Spruce Goose"), and the Hughes H-1 Racer. The photographs also depict celebrations following Hughes's circumnavigation flight in New York City, New York and Chicago, Illinois in 1938. Lastly, the photographs include Hughes testifying in front of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program in 1947.
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes on a ladder, climbing into the XF-11, 1946 July 07
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 09
Archival Component
Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, 1947 July 07
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 12
Archival Component