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Photograph of Howard Hughes's airplane, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Description

A view of the front of one of Howard Hughes' planes.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes's airplane, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Description

A view of the side of Howard Hughes' Boeing Stratoliner.

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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company employees at work, 1951

Date

1951

Description

Employees of Hughes Tool Company at work in 1951.

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Photograph of Hughes Racer landing after historic flight, Newark (N.J.), January 19, 1937

Date

1937-01-19

Description

Hughes' plane landing after historic flight. Inscription with image reads: "Hughes Racer landing at Newark Airport after breaking coast-to-coast record 27 sec. - distance 2490 mi. - average speed 332 mph. (This bettered his previous record by 2 hours.) Newark, New Jersey."

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Photograph of worker in Hughes Machine Shop, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool and joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for the Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering departments. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

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Leon Hughes and his family in the Pahrump Valley, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1954 to 1956

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and co-pilot at HK-1 gauges, October 31, 1947

Date

1947-10-31

Description

Howard Hughes (right) and unidentified co-pilot at the gauge panel of the Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat.

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Photograph of a banquet for Howard Hughes, Los Angeles, August 1, 1938

Date

1938-08-01

Description

Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Attending a banquet in honor of Howard Hughes were L to R: Mayor Frank Shaw of Los Angeles, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and Gov. Frank Merriam."

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4222 "Howard Hughes in Aviation", undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 15

Archival Component

Hughes Film Stock Footage, undated

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 14

Archival Component