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Photograph of a replica of the Hughes Tool Company hard formation rock bit type R-1, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
A trophy modeled for display after the Hughes Tool Company hard formation rock bit type R-1. The drill bit was the engineering marvel on which the Hughes fortune was founded.
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Photograph of the interior of the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1917
Date
1916 to 1919
Archival Collection
Description
Interior of the Hughes Tool Company, at Second and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas. Shown is the lab where the trench mining drill was developed.
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Photograph of L. A. Hyland arriving at the airport, Culver City, California, November 22, 1954
Date
1954-11-22
Archival Collection
Description
L. A. Hyland (center) arrives to take over as General Manager of Hughes Aircraft Company. Hyland is seen on the steps of a small airplane, and is surrounded by four unidentified men.
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Photograph of Landmark Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1970s
Date
1970 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
Daytime photo of the tower of the Landmark Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Also visible is the roof of the casino below, and a large parking lot across the street.
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Photograph of Las Vegas hotel marquees, 1968
Date
1968
Archival Collection
Description
Marquees of the Silver Slipper, Desert Inn and Frontier Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada, at twilight. The Sands Hotel tower can be seen in the distance.
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Photograph of Lockheed-14 at Floyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn, July 10, 1938
Date
1938-07-10
Archival Collection
Description
Spectators surround a Lockheed-14 on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn. Automobiles and media members are among the crowd.
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Photograph of Nicholas Begovich and E.W. Templin with Frescanar antenna, 1957
Date
1957
Archival Collection
Description
View of the 3-D antenna for Frescanar, Hughes Aircrafts Company's guided missile targeted radar system. At right, Dr. Nicholas Begovich, Director of Engineering, Hughes Ground Systems Group. At left, E.W. Templin, systems evaluation engineer.
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Photograph of Northrop Gamma Racer at Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 13, 1936
Date
1936-01-13
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma Racer, surrounded by media and crowds in front of hangar at the Newark Airport.
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Portrait painting of Howard Hughes, circa 1940s
Date
1940 to 1949
Archival Collection
Description
The official portrait painting of Howard Hughes. In 1998, Russ Stevenson presented the painting, along with many of his other Hughes Airwest files and memoirs, to the Special Collections Library of the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa early 1940s
Date
1940 to 1944
Archival Collection
Description
Headshot portrait of Howard Hughes in the early 1940s.
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