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Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel, 1938 August 01

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 16

Archival Component

Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel, 1938 August 01

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 16

Archival Component

Eddie Hall Holzman oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02101

Abstract

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 airplane controls, July 9, 1938

Date

1938-07-09

Description

A close up of the control board in a Howard Hughes plane, likely the Lockheed L-14 Super Electra.

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Howard Hughes College of Engineering Senior Design Competition held inside The Great hall on December 7, 2011: digital photographs

Date

2011-12-07

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Dawn Barlow-Curtis, Engineering

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Ashley Hall oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02488

Abstract

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

Judith Blackburn and Lou McGraw regarding files Howard Hall transferred to the Hughes Productions Hollywood office, 1957 April 15

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 155 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Harry Hall oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00770

Abstract

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

Photograph of the Lockheed 14 landing in Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

Description printed on back of photograph: "Howard Hughes' plane landing at Fairbanks, Alaska, on flight around the world. 7/15/1938"

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Susan Hall: photographic print

Date

1979 (year approximate) to 1982 (year approximate)

Description

Susan Hall, daughter of Kathy Ledford Hall.

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