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Datebooks, 1938-1944
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) Corporate Records
Box/Folder: Box 01, Box 02
Archival Component
MGM Grand, New York New York, and housing shelter B-roll: video
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Moving Image
Photograph of airplane controls, July 9, 1938
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Judith Blackburn and Lou McGraw regarding files Howard Hall transferred to the Hughes Productions Hollywood office, 1957 April 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 155 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
New York New York roller coaster, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Eddie Hall Holzman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Eddie Hall Holzman conducted by Lisa Gioia-Acres on October 02, 2008 for the All That Jazz Oral History Project. Holzman begins the interview talking about his growth as a musician while living and performing in New Jersey and New York. He also discusses his time playing while enlisted in the military, until he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947 where he played in a jazz band. Holzman also describes working as a card dealer at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino, the Desert Inn Hotel and Casino, and the El Rancho Hotel and Casino. He also details the music scene in Las Vegas from the 1950s through the end of his playing career.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa late 1930s
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of the Lockheed 14 landing in Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1938
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Ashley Hall oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Ashley Hall conducted by Claytee D. White on September 2, 2015 and September 22, 2015 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Hall discusses being the city manager of Las Vegas, Nevada during the early portion of the development of Summerlin, Nevada by the Hughes Corporation. He also discusses his earlier life before politics, pertaining to Nevada Trench Safety.
Archival Collection
Harry Hall oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Harry Hall conducted by Dennis McBride on June 20, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. Hall discusses how the hope of work on the dam encouraged his move to Nevada with his mother and stepfather. He then talks at some length about living in a tent in Ragtown, the various illegal bootlegging establishments along the dirt road running between Las Vegas and Boulder City, Nevada, and working on the dam. He continues talking about working conditions, the heat, and the labor strike at the dam in August, 1931.
Archival Collection