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Las Vegas, Nevada City Hall hearings for individuals arrested at the Lenten Desert Experience: photographic slides, 1979 May
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00352
Collection Name: Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Binder PB-010
Collection Name: Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Binder PB-010
Archival Component
Frontier Music Hall, menu
Date
1950 (year approximate) to 1980 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Menu insert: Wine lists Restaurant: Frontier Hotel and Casino Music Hall Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Text
Photograph of Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the XF-11 preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947
Date
1947
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from press release attached to back of photo: "NEW PHOTO PLANE TEST-FLOWN CULVER CITY, California, July 7 -- Howard Hughes, who designed and built the new FX-11 reconnaissance plane in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers, sits in the pilot's bubble-glass canopy preparing for the first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photo planes, the XF-11 can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour, Army officials said. It is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Outstanding features include a full-span flap, unique eight-camera layout, and exceptionally fast take-off." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947.
Image
Howard Cannon with a man in a wheelchair: photographic print
Date
1970-12-09
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
Image
Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew exiting the Lockheed 14 aircraft after they performed the final landing on the Round the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Crowds jammed on field around Hughes' plane New York City-- Police holding back part of the wildly cheering crowd of 30,000 persons from the plane of Howard Hughes after Hughes and his crew of four had landed the faint Lockheed at Floyd Bennett Field, July 14th, after the record-smashing 3 day, 19 hour, 14 minute flight around the world. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38 (SS)"
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1936
Date
1936-01
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes on a telephone.
Image
An exterior view of the North Las Vegas City Hall framed by the roofline of a medical office building on North McDaniel Street in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
2019-02-06
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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Architectural drawing of residential home in Boulder City, Nevada, preliminary elevation, September 19, 1962
Date
1962-09-19
Archival Collection
Description
Preliminary drawing of front exterior elevation of a ranch-style residential home in Boulder City, Nevada.
Architecture Period: Mid-Century ModernistImage
Lockheed 14 aircraft, France, 1938 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Archival Component
Lockheed 14, Burbank, California, 1938 June
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 04
Archival Component