About This Item

  • TitleHoward Hughes
  • Call NumberPORT_0495
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "At the end of a record transcontinental flight in the famous 'round-the-world Hughes transport plane--left to right--Glenn Odekirk, co-pilot; Charles Perrine, radio operator; Howard Hughes, and Harry Connor, navigator ..." Photograph was presumably taken at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Aug. 21/38; "Eagle staff photo.". Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectHughes, Howard, 1905-1976 ; Odekirk, Glenn E
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Jamaica Bay (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.