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Radar safety control system for passenger planes, demonstrated by Howard Hughes in a Trans World Airline plane, at Culver City, California, 1947 May 03
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
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 24
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Archival Component
Radar safety control system for passenger planes, demonstrated by Howard Hughes in a Trans World Airline plane, at Culver City, California, 1947 May 03
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Archival Component
Radar safety control system for passenger planes, demonstrated by Howard Hughes in a Trans World Airline plane, at Culver City, California, 1947 May 03
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 09, 1947
Date
1947-08-09
Archival Collection
Description
An up close view of Howard Hughes at the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee hearing in Washington.
Image
Photograph of a parade for Howard Hughes, Chicago, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
The street view of a parade held for Howard Hughes in Chicago. Hughes can be seen sitting in the first black car in line, wearing a white outfit as he waves to the surrounding crowd.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 09, 1947
Date
1947-08-09
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hughes Arrives For Hearing, Washington: Plane manufacturer Howard Hughes arrives for the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee hearing on August 6th. Credit (ACME) 8-9-47."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes inside an unidentified plane, circa 1937
Date
1936 to 1938
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes sitting in an unidentified plane.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes in a film editing lab, circa 1950
Date
1947 to 1952
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes sitting in a film editing lab, circa 1950
Image
Photograph of Frank Merriam, Howard Hughes, and Frank L. Shaw, Los Angeles, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Los Angeles Welcomed Howard Hughes Home, Los Angeles, Cal. --- Governor Frank Merriam, Howard Hughes, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw (left to right) as they rode through the crowd-packed streets of Los Angeles during the reception -- one of the greatest and wildest the city had ever seen -- as Hughes and his four daring companions on his World-Flight arrived in the city. Credit Line (ACME). 8/2/38."
Image
Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, June 12, 1946
Date
1946-06-12
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Prepare to Move "Hercules" Wing, Culver City, Calif. -- One of the two 34-ton wing sections of Howard Hughes' eight-engined Hercules, world's largest flying boat, is put on house-moving dollies in Culver City, Calif., before beginning the 28-mile journey to Los Angeles Harbor, where the mammoth airplane will be assembled for its first test flight, supposedly around the first of the year. A two-day trip will see the wing- 19 feet high, 49 feet wide, 160 feet long - at the $200,000 graving dock at Terminal Island, Calif., which was built specifically for the assembly of the craft. Note comparative size of men working on the wind. Credit (ACME). 6-12-46."
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