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Progress reports: moving Howard Hughes' flying boat to Las Vegas, 1989
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Oran K. Gragson Papers
Box/Folder: Box 33
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Photograph and newspaper article about Tom Godbey, Boulder City News, June 19, 1946
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UNLV Lied Library and Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering correspondence, 1993-2013
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Reynolds Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 12 (Restrictions apply)
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Photograph of sign on highway to Boulder City, 1940s-1950s
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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1935-1945
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Materials contain photographs of the Hughes H-1 Racer aircraft from 1935 to 1945. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of area around Boulder City, Nevada, 1964
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Photograph of Boulder City (Nev.), January 22, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Boulder City (Nev.), 1947-01-22
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