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Howard Hughes in a crowd of people after his around-the-world flight, New York City, New York, 1938 July 13
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Archival Component
Boulder City, Nevada, including City Hall, the Boulder Theater building, the Hoover Dam Hotel, and the Terminal Building with the Boulder Cafe, approximately 1933-1934
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 11
Archival Component
A sidewalk leads to the North Las Vegas City Hall, looking north in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Las Vegas Boulevard and Lake Mead Boulevard.
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Anderson Boarding and Supply Company contract for building a mess hall and living quarters near Tuba City, Arizona, 1940 November
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 147 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Photographs of crowds at Around-the-World-Flight Parade, New York City (N.Y.), July 15, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Howard Hughes's around-the-world flight photographs, 1938
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Scope and Contents
Materials depict the celebrations of Howard Hughes's circumnavigation flight in 1938. Along with a crew consisting of Harry Connor, Tom Thurlow, Richard Stoddart, and Ed Lund, Hughes flew the Super Electra on a global circumnavigation flight. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and the crew departed Floyd Bennett Field in New York and flew to Paris, France, Moscow, Russia, Omsk, Russia, Yakutsk, Russia, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota before landing back in New York on July 14. The photographs primarily depict the parades thrown for Hughes after completion of the flight. The photographs also depict Hughes and his crew meeting with New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at New York City Hall, the National Press Association, and crowds of onlookers who attended the plane's landings in various cities.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Map of the city of Las Vegas, 1953
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Description
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Minutes of meeting at City Hall council chambers regarding the best ways to control flooding in Southern Nevada, March 7, 1950
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Archival Collection
Description
Meeting called to discuss the best ways to control flooding in Southern Nevada.
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Las Vegas, city of, parcel of land adjoining American Legion Hall, 1962
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Elmo C. Bruner Architectural and Real Estate Appraisal Records
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Negative: Oran K. Gragson in his office at City Hall, 1961 December 21
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Oran K. Gragson Photographs
Box/Folder: Box SH-032
Archival Component