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Agreement with Nevada Silica Sands Company, 1935-1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft at Le Bourget Airfield, France, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Next stop-- Moscow! Le Bourget, France---- After making minor repairs, Howard Hughes and his companions took off from Le Bourget, to complete their record-smashing circuit of the globe in 3 days and 19 hours. The photo shows the Hughes plane, 'World's Fair, 1939,' propellers whirling, just before the takeoff for Moscow, second leg of the world flight."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, January 19, 1937

Date

1937-01-19

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes after breaking his own cross country speed record.

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All Year Club of Southern California, 1938-1942

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 86 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Claims - loss or damage - flood march, 1938-1940

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 57 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Las Vegas, Nevada - Nelson, Olaf, 1938-1939

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 36 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Lease to Will Beckly for sign board site, 1938-1942

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

McNamee, Frank. And Taxes, Trend v.2, 1938 February

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 13

Archival Component

Portrait painting of Howard Hughes, circa 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

The official portrait painting of Howard Hughes. In 1998, Russ Stevenson presented the painting, along with many of his other Hughes Airwest files and memoirs, to the Special Collections Library of the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Interior view of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall: postcards

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1959 (year approximate)

Description

Interior view of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, Nev. (c. 1950's) Bar and Gambling tables.

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