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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 Actual unpublished never before seen photographs of the most reclusive and important figure in american history!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These images you are about to see are unpublished and the only known photograph shot and signed by Howard Hughes himself during the developing process at the most important times in this mans life.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 24, 2017 at 9:55pm: "The hard proof is in the scientific analysis of the two signatures do the measurements it is exact points of commonality"

Proving...? It has no bearing on who is shown in the photograph.

It is interesting to apply those ideas to the images though.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 9:56pm: PS - It has no bearing on who factually took that photo either.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 24, 2017 at 9:57pm: OK are you satisfied with the ear issue now?

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 10:08pm: No, not really. Sorry, I am not willing to positively identify a man as Howard Hughes simply because of the type of knot in his tie. Why not assume it is Hughes because his suit is double breasted and sports twin lapel buttons? The other images don't help your position.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 10:10pm: Why not post your early photo along with known images for opinions? What is to lose?

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 10:14pm: This was an unemotional discussion regarding the authenticity of purported unpublished photographs of Howard Hughes. You are getting testy now and I simply don't need that.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 24, 2017 at 10:17pm: I am just letting you know that you will not be able to debunk the fact that the person who created the Howard Hughes aviation logo is the same person that signed that photograph! You can not do it because the way you determine a signature shows all commonality required

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 24, 2017 at 10:21pm: Actually you have kinda called me a lier for going on three days straight with I have stated complete truths on this subject. I am not a con artist or a lier just a man that found something unbelievable

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 10:25pm: You have no idea how I examine signatures. You showed me the post crash 1946 Getty photo (that does not actually show any of his ear) - assuming some damage, should his ear in 1959 match the images from the 1947 Senate hearings? And what about the rest of his facial features? Did he lose his eyebrows in the crash? His trademark jawline?

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 24, 2017 at 10:25pm: You have no idea how I examine signatures. You showed me the post crash 1946 Getty photo (that does not actually show any of his ear) - assuming some damage, should his ear in 1959 match the images from the 1947 Senate hearings? And what about the rest of his facial features? Did he lose his eyebrows in the crash? His trademark jawline?

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