About This Item

  • TitleHoward Hughes
  • Call NumberPORT_0493
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0491, PORT 0492), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views, in different sizes, of Howard Hughes being congratulated and honored after his record-breaking flight. Caption (0491): "Mayor LaGuardia and Grover Whalen [standing in front of microphones] greeting the 'round-the-world crew at Floyd Bennett Field. Image includes many policemen in background. 0492: "Flanked by Grover Whalen (left) and by his personal manager, Albert I. Lodwick, Howard Hughes (center) rides up Broadway in a swirling mass of ticker tape ..." 0493: "Howard Hughes smiles his pleasure at enthusiastic Brooklyn greeting."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped. On verso of 0491: date inscribed: July 15/38. Title from caption on verso of 0492 and 0493.
  • SubjectHughes, Howard, 1905-1976 ; Microphone ; Parades -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica Bay (N.Y.)New York (N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.