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

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Creator
Creator: Burt Moritz Photography
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.
Digital ID
whh000413
Physical Identifier
0321_0444
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1125qh1n
Details
Subject
Employees
Machine shops
Time Period
1940s (1940 - 1949)
1950s (1950 - 1959)
Resource Type
Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
Source
Hughes Laboratory machine shop, approximately 1940-1959
Digital Project
Welcome Home, Howard
Citation

whh000413. 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/d1125qh1n

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Standardized Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Date Digitized
2012-09-28
Extent
5923 x 4801 pixels
inches
81,692,614 bytes
Language

English

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff