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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947
Date
1947-05-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hughes Pilots Radar-Equipped Plane Culver City, Calif. -- First passenger plane equipped with radar is flown in demonstration May 1st by Howard Hughes (left) and co-pilot R.C. Loomis over Culver City. Pilots using this equipment will be warned of approaching obstacles by lights flashing on radar panel. Two lights (lefts) with 2,000-foot range, are used to guarantee clearance over mountains; two lights (right) with 500-foot range, are a safety device for approaches and landings. Either set of lights warns against approaching aircraft. Trans-World Airline plans to install radar on its passenger planes. Credit (ACME) 5-3-47."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Culver City, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hercules Fuselage Leaves Hangar, Calver City, Calif. - The hull of Howard Hughes' huge cargo flying boat, the Hercules, largest airplane in the world leaves hangar in the Culver City, Calif., plant to begin a 28-mile trip to Terminal Island, Calif., by truck and dolly. the 220-foot long hull-fuselage will follow the path of the wing sections to the graving dock where the air giant will be assembled. Credit Line (ACME) 6/16/46."
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Map of California and territories of New Mexico and Utah, circa 1861
Date
1859 to 1862
Description
'Compiled, drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson.' Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:3,041,280]. 1 in. to approx. 48 miles (W 124°--W 103°/N 42°--N 31°). Hand colored
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.
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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Photograph of museum basement corner, Boulder City, (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
East corner of basement in Boulder City Museum.
Image
Watercolor sketches: Central Park, New York City, New York, undated
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00355
Collection Name: Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 16
Collection Name: Jeanne Russell Janish Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 16
Archival Component
Wilbur Clark at a formal dinner, New York City, New York, 1958
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00302
Collection Name: Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Collection Name: Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Archival Component
Wilbur Clark at a formal dinner, New York City, New York, 1958
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00302
Collection Name: Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Collection Name: Toni and Wilbur Clark Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Archival Component
View of New York City from New Jersey: color slide, 1943
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Larry Fotine Music collection
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Collection Number: MS-01179
Collection Name: Larry Fotine Music collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Collection Name: Larry Fotine Music collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Photograph a crowd awaiting watching Howard Hughes land, New York, July 14, 2013
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
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)."
Image
Wilbur Square Park in Boulder City, Nevada, approximately 1937-1938
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 80
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 80
Archival Component