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Aerial photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat being moved to Terminal Island, California, 1946

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Date

1946

Description

A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946. The airship photographing the scene is shown by shadow.

Digital ID

whh000318

Physical Identifier

0321_0371
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Citation

whh000318. Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs, 1916-1997. PH-00321. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d11j97f6q

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Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Date Digitized

2012-09-06

Extent

5336 x 4044 pixels
8.893 x 6.74 inches
64,737,232 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff