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Photograph of Hughes in film lab, Image 002
Date
Description
Image
Howard Hughes, (General) Bennett E. Meyers, and the Senate War Investigating Committee on the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" seaplane, newspaper clippings, 1948 April 14 to 1948 June 18
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 552 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Howard Heckethorn oral history interview
Identifier
Abstract
Oral history interview with Howard Heckethorn conducted by Richard Eitland on February 15, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Mr. Heckethorn describes going to school in the early days of Las Vegas, Nevada. He also talks about many notable teachers he had, as well as the development of the Las Vegas area. Heckethorn also discusses his arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1930, and recalls the Old Mormon Fort, El Rancho, The Last Frontier, and the tourism that gambling brought to the city. Heckethorn discusses the 1960s, and the impact Howard Hughes had in the development of hotels and casinos.
Archival Collection
Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Howard Hughes; Hughes's lawyer T. A. Slack; John B. Parkinson, representative of the national Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Edward Schwartz, former member of the Air Force Evaluation Board; E. A. Peterman; and Glen Odekirk, an executive of the Hughes's Plant, 1947 November 08
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28
Archival Component
Series I. Publications, 1938-1984
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
The Publications series dates from 1938 to 1984 and contains published works by Joanne de Longchamps, as well as poetry magazines in which she made notes on poems by other authors. It includes photocopies of her published poems, journals, anthologies, and books.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Joanne de Longchamps Papers
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
J. T. McWilliams and family, 1930-1938
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
Materials contain photographs of J. T. McWilliams and the McWilliams family from 1930 to 1938. McWilliams was a surveyor and civil engineer who founded the original Las Vegas townsite (McWilliams Town). He also owned a portion of Lee Canyon, which he donated to become a public park.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Aerial photograph of an unknown landscape, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 07
Archival Component
SAG regulations, approximately 1938 to 1939
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 521 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component