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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Abstract
The Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection depicts the activities of businessman Howard Hughes from 1930 to 1950. The photographs primarily depict aircraft flown by Hughes or designed by the Hughes Aircraft Company, including the XF-11 reconnaissance plane, the HK-1 Hercules (or "Spruce Goose"), and the Hughes H-1 Racer. The photographs also depict celebrations following Hughes's circumnavigation flight in New York City, New York and Chicago, Illinois in 1938. Lastly, the photographs include Hughes testifying in front of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program in 1947.
Archival Collection
Aerial photograph of Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, circa 1940s-1950s
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Archival Collection
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Howard Hughes, California Governor Frank Merriam, and Will Hays at a banquet held for Howard Hughes in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California, 1938 August 01
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16
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Photograph of Howard Hughes leaving the Northrop Gamma Racer, Newark, New Jersey, January 13, 1936
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Archival Collection
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New York City 2002 calendar, 2002
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 487
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Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat wing assembly, Culver City, California, circa 1942-46
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Archival Collection
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Map of California and territories of New Mexico and Utah, circa 1861
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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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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia on the steps of City Hall receiving Howard Hughes and his crew: Ed Lund, Richard Stoddart, Thomas Thurlow, and Harry Connor, 1938 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 12
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia on the steps of City Hall receiving Howard Hughes and his crew: Ed Lund, Richard Stoddart, Thomas Thurlow, and Harry Connor, 1938 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 12
Archival Component
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia on the steps of City Hall receiving Howard Hughes and his crew: Ed Lund, Richard Stoddart, Thomas Thurlow, and Harry Connor, 1938 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 12
Archival Component