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Photograph of Howard Hughes checking the Hughes Flying Boat, Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
Date
1947-11-01
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes checking the instrument panel of the HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat (400,000 pound, 24,000 horsepower airplane) with his crew before the taxi tests, at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.
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David Rea Collection of Howard Hughes Publicity Photographs
Identifier
PH-00400
Abstract
This collection is comprised of publicity photographs of Howard Hughes and his aircrafts, from approximately the 1940s to the 1950s, that were compiled by David Rea, former pilot for Hughes Aircraft Company. This collection also includes clippings and technical drawings of Hughes aircrafts.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes surrounded by officers.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Howard Hughes standing next to a table with an unidentified man. The two are looking over a sheet of paper Hughes is holding. They are possibly on a film set.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa late 1930s
Date
1935 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white profile of Howard Hughes walking.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, October 11, 1956
Date
1956-10-11
Archival Collection
Description
Portrait of Howard Hughes, without a mustache, October 11, 1956.
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white, skyline view of New York City with Lockheed 14 aircraft flying in the foreground. Typed onto paper included with the image: "New York- Howard Hughes' plane over New York after flight around the world. 7/14/38"
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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 the Lockheed 14 aircraft, July 10, 1938
Date
1938-07-10
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 aircraft. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Take-off from Floyd Bennett Airport for Paris on first lef of Round the World flight at 7:20 P.M. E.D.T. piloted by Howard Hughes with crew of four."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the Hughes Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
Date
1947
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes sits at the controls of his 400,000 pound Flying Boat just a day prior to its first tests in the Los Angeles Harbor in California. The aircraft was 219 feet long with a wing span of 320 feet.
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