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#00300: Hughes, Mark, 1972 July 10
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File
Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-01
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Archival Component
#03626: Brock with Hughes, M, 1979 July 31
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Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-01
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Archival Component
#01770: Hughes, Mark, 1975 July 08
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-01
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and others, San Pedro, California, November 04, 1947
Date
1947-11-04
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Float Flying Boat, San Pedro, Calif.: Workmen prepare to float Howard Hughes' 200-ton plywood flying boat at San Pedro on Nov. 1st for taxi tests in Los Angeles Harbor. The craft can be seen in its mammoth drydock, where it was assembled and outfitted. Credit Line (ACME) 11/04/47."
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Aerial photograph of Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Aerial view of Hughes Airport in Culver City, now Playa Vista, California. This private airport was owned by Howard Hughes and used for projects of the Hughes Aircraft Company and Hughes Tool Company. Lincoln Boulevard can be seen in the foreground, and on the left are Jefferson Boulevard and Ballona Creek.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes's Stratoliner in Glendale, California, August 30, 1939
Date
1939-08-30
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photograph: "Hughes's Stratoliner is ultimate in Streamline. Glendale, Calif.--- To give one an idea of just how far aeronautical designers can go with the streamlining effect, this above view of Howard Hughes' newest four-motored, $250,00 Stratoliner is pictured from the tail end of the big plane as it stood on the runway at the Grand Central air terminal at Glendale, Calif. The millionaire flier is believed to be preparing for a new caost-to-coast record. 8-30-39""
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Aerial photograph of Hughes' flying boat docked at harbor, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947
Date
1947-07-16
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken July 16, 1947. "Hughes Aircraft" stamped on the back of the image.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 02, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Howard Hughes Flying Boat at Terminal Island. (Inside fuselage to the rear taken from forward section) Long Beach, Cal."
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Aerial photograph of Hughes' Hercules flying boat aircraft, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947
Date
1947-07-16
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken on July 16, 1947.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and unidentified man on the flight deck of the Flying Boat, May 12, 1947
Date
1947-05-12
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "Howard Hughes, right, noted aircraft designer and industrialist is shown for the first time on the flight deck of the famed Hughes flying boat, which he designed and built. It is the largest airplane in the world. The plane is now nearing completion on Terminal Island, in Los Angeles-Long Bay Harbor, May 12, 1947." Los Angeles Harbor is now known as Long Beach Harbor, California.
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