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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 Actual unpublished never before seen photographs of the most reclusive and important figure in american history!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These images you are about to see are unpublished and the only known photograph shot and signed by Howard Hughes himself during the developing process at the most important times in this mans life.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 COREY LYNCH on February 22, 2017 at 11:58pm: What does that mean?

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 12:03am: Hi Corey,

I am asking if you "squuezed" the photo vertically in your scan. How do you know it is Howard?

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 12:05am: "Squeezed" - sorry.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 12:28am: I have have read the letter Howard sent the wr Palmer I know where wr and his wife moved to a block away from the Hughes home in Texas as he helped Howard secure the company from his uncle in early 1924 I can prove that We Palmer owned a deep well drilling company and always had at least two crews drilling with Hughes duel cone bit at all times from 1909 until the 1930s. Most important is that I have seen the proof with my own eyes. I know this is a very unique and rare situation but I can prove that this is him. Also compare the handwriting between the photograph with the first logo for the Howard Hughes corporation that he created close to the same time the hand writing match on so many unique points on top of the pile of proof I have seen

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 12:40am: Send me your email and I will send you raw photograph pictures you can view

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 12:44am: I did shrink the edge of the photograph cutting off the borders by a bit

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 12:51am: Thanks - mail to magikbilly@yahoo.com

The handwriting proves nothing to me. It appears rather skilled and was done backward by scratching the negative - so perhaps not even Howard's hand.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 1:05am: Thanks. I don't believe that is Howard Hughes in 1922/23. There are just too many physical dissimilarities to my eye.

Comment by COREY LYNCH on February 23, 2017 at 1:49am: And the Hughes on the photograph? You can not tell that it is Howard Hughes that wrote that? Are you sure because I am. I am not presenting theories. This man Wr Palmer was the perfect example of what a 33 degree can accomplish in a lifetime the Hughes photographs are only one small piece of the big story of Wr Palmer trust me on that.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on February 23, 2017 at 3:19am: I was saying in this context the handwriting means little if that is not actually Howard Hughes - I was not speaking of the writing itself - and it doesn't appear to be from comparison with other period photographs.

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