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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 Actual unpublished never before seen photographs of the most reclusive and important figure in american history!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These images you are about to see are unpublished and the only known photograph shot and signed by Howard Hughes himself during the developing process at the most important times in this mans life.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 22, 2017 at 11:11pm: It does not look like H.H. Senior though.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 22, 2017 at 11:12pm: All of the pictures are Howard Hughes jr. Two are mine and one is the last known photo of Howard

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 22, 2017 at 11:13pm: You are saying the man in the suit and tie is 12 years old?

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 22, 2017 at 11:15pm: The young looking picture is of Howard at 18 years old the older man is howard Hughes in 1959 then 1961

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 22, 2017 at 11:19pm: I am lost - did you not say the photo was taken in 1917? Howard was born in 1905.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 22, 2017 at 11:24pm: No that is when he learned how to shoot and develop film the picture was taken by Howard Hughes at age 18 and sent with a letter introducing himself to W.r.Palmer who was a close friend and brother Mason to his father asking he to help him after his father passed away.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 22, 2017 at 11:28pm: Well, it seems that the thing we should be discussing is that this is a Howard Hughes self portrait!

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 22, 2017 at 11:30pm: The picture of the man with the pipe in his hand was taken by W.r. Palmer in 1959

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 22, 2017 at 11:48pm: I was speaking of the photo you said he took himself. But I am not fully convinced that is him.

Here is Hughes C. 1925

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries