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Crowd awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, 1938 July 14

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 08

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Crowd awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, 1938 July 14

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 08

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Howard Hughes and his crew on the steps of City Hall for photographs in New York City, 1938 July 15

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 12

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Howard Hughes in a New York hotel lobby after completing an around-the-world flight, 1938 July 15

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10

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Howard Hughes in car receiving the applause of the crowd during his reception in New York, 1938 July 15

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10

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"Yankee Baseball Greats 1938" photograph, 1938

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16 (Restrictions apply)

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Howard Hughes and Grover Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair Corporation, 1938 July 04

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05

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Photograph of a crowd awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes' plane at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of a crowd of people awaiting the arrival Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Tumultuous welcome awaits world fliers here Floyd Bennett Airport, N.Y. -- Policemen lined up on the field here awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes and his companions, New York bound from Minneapolis, on the last leg of their epochal Round-The-World flight. By noon, a crowd of 6,000 persons had gathered at the airport, and it was increasing by the moment. Credit line (ACME). 7/14/38."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, July 10, 1938

Date

1938-07-10

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. Text printed on accompanying paper strip: "Hughes takes off on flight to Paris. Floyd Bennett Field, New York City-- Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire speed flyer, pictured in the nose of his Hughes Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" as Hughes and his picked crew of four prepared for the take-off to Paris and probably around the world on July 10th. A few minutes after this picture was taken, the giant ship lifted from the field to follow the trail blazed by Chrales A. Lindbergh. Credit Line (ACME) 7/10/38."

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Map of California, territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah, circa 1863

Date

1861 to 1865

Description

40 x 62 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Historical and statistical view of the United States, 1860"--Verso. Atlas page numbers at top: 58-59. Arizona became a territory in 1863, and Nevada became a state on October 31, 1864, so this map was either published in 1863 or in 1864 before the end of October. Original publisher: Johnson and Ward.

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