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Aerial photograph of the Hughes Aircraft plant, Culver City, California, circa 1960s
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Archival Collection
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Hugh McAllister oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Hugh McAllister conducted by A. D. Hopkins on January 15, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In the interview, McAllister discusses his early life working as a miner in Colorado and Nevada, his time in Lathrop Wells, Nevada, and his eventual move to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1936. McAllister also discusses his work as a bread truck driver, highway construction worker, and a machine shop worker for Basic Magnesium, Inc.
Archival Collection
Hugh Shirkey oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Hugh Shirkey conducted by Patricia van Betten on February 04, 2010 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. In this interview, Shirkey discusses his personal history and arriving to Blue Diamond, Nevada in 1950. He talks about his employment at the Blue Diamond Mine as an electrician. Shirkey describes what life was like at the village as a single worker, the development of the mining plant, how the plant was managed, and traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada. Lastly, Shirkey recalls moving to Las Vegas and retiring from the mining plant.
Archival Collection
Newspaper clippings about Hughes Aircraft Company and Hughes Tool Company, 1947-1976
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 03, Box 04, Box 05, Box 08
Archival Component
Senator Howard Cannon is pictured with a group of Nevada constituents, Harry Reid, and Frank Scott: photographic print, 1977 July
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 14
Archival Component
Howard Cannon with three unidentified men: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Hughes Training, 1993
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 07
Archival Component
Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Leon Hughes and his horse: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family
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Russell Howard oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Russel Howard conducted by James W. Howard on January 10, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Howard recalls being transferred to Las Vegas, Nevada for work in 1947 and how impressed he was by the number of celebrities from the movie and entertainment industry that frequented Las Vegas in the early 1950s. He also discusses the expansion of the Las Vegas Strip and how rapidly the number of hotels grew.
Archival Collection