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I saved a box of old paperwork from the dump and found some historical treasures!

I rescued a box of paperwork that was going to the dump from a Real estate clean out after bank repossession. Full of old paperwork from the mining days to find out that it had about 30 years of information from a man named W.R. Palmer who was a Arizona state senator. He was also A patented Inventor western Indian expert, A mining Engineer, and hard rock drilling expert. Also the man that patented a process he perfected turning cast iron to harder structural steel forever changing the world.

This man was also a fellow mason and friend of Howard Hughes Sr. I am in the process of writing a in depth story of W.R. Palmer and his connection to the Hughes family,

this blog is going to be to share the most amazing think that I found in this amazing box. Actual unpublished never before seen photographs of the most reclusive and important figure in american history!

Not just any pictures. Two photos taken at two major and missing points in his lifetime. The first picture of a young man not even old enough to shave shot and developed by Howard Hughes Jr. himself after his uncle taught him the art of picture development in 1917 while with his father in California after his mother passed away. Signed by Hughes in the darkroom. Sent to the one man who he felt he could trust to ask to help knowing that he was the man that helped his father at every turn building his tool empire.

After Howard Lost his father. He sent the first photograph and a letter introducing himself and asking for his help and advice in any way possible. After reading the letter asking him for help Mr. Palmer and his wife returned to Texas and moved to a House a block from the Hughes family home and helped young Howard secure his company and his rights to his fathers fortune from his uncles trying to steal his company out from him.

The second photograph was taken in 1959 by W.r. Palmer a year before he passed away and about a year and a half before the last known photograph of Howard Hughes in 1961.

I have no idea what a find of this significance is actually worth but I am showing it to you now in hopes that you could help.

These images you are about to see are unpublished and the only known photograph shot and signed by Howard Hughes himself during the developing process at the most important times in this mans life.

Remember I own the original photographs and rights to these photographs and with that said the logo used to compare signatures is the first logo made by Howard a few years after the photograph.

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Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 11:32am: No Corey, after a good night's sleep I realized you technically do not have the right to post that photo, especially if it is Howard Hughes and he took it. I am not so sure that is Hughes anyway. You have not addressed the fact it does not look like him. Why do you think it becomes Public Domain in 6 years? When as it published? The real story is, if that IS Hughes, it is a signed self portrait - unheard of.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 23, 2017 at 11:37am: It's generally OK to post copyrighted things for discussion purposes under fair use copyright laws.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 11:37am: I know that any music falls under public domain after 100 years also books so I assumed the same would apply to this. Especially since his estate was always in question to the will

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 11:42am: And it is being used of educational purposes I have not tried to profit from it and wanted to just make clear that the original is in my possession

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 11:44am: That is generally true Steve. Very few authors I know wade into the fairly murky waters of Fair Use willingly. I was really speaking to Corey's claim that he actually owns the rights to the work and that is impossible.

Re Copyright never assume anything.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 11:44am: That is generally true Steve. Very few authors I know wade into the fairly murky waters of Fair Use willingly. I was really speaking to Corey's claim that he actually owns the rights to the work and that is impossible.

Re Copyright never assume anything.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 11:47am: That is commendable Corey - I just wanted to make it clear that you do not hold the copyright and can not control the use of the image once it gets out there. Fair Use cuts both ways.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 11:50am: So if there was a question as to the actual estate which there was with Howard Hughes then where does it leave these two photographs?

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 11:56am: I believe that they should be in the unlv collection. So that being said they have to be donated. If I do not sell I am robbing some rich man of his tax break for charitable donation lol

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 11:58am: If he took that early photo, whoever it shows, Hughes is the author and the copyright lasts for 70 years after his death - thus his estate would technically be owner. Is someone going to chase another down the street for using an old portrait of grandpa which technically is the property of the local photographer? Dpoubtful - this is done all the time with old photographs. A better example is wedding photos today - you may not reproduce them without permission even if you are in them. But a photo purporting to be of and taken by Hughes? That might get some attention. If the Copyright were maintained or if this image was actually published then things change again. Obviously, I am no lawyer.

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