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Photograph of Thomas Black, Howard Hughes, and Noah Dietrich at Senate War Investigating Committee hearings, Washington, D.C., August 6, 1947
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Camera logs for directors' Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks, and Howard Hughes, 1940 December 03 to 1948 September 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 148 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Letter from Hugh A. Shamberger (Carson City) to Colonel H. F. Clark (Las Vegas), December 11, 1951
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Shamberger advised the Water District to purchase the lands surrounding the Las Vegas Springs as well as other springs and wells in the area to protect its water sources in the future.
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Howard Hughes speaking to Senators J. Howard McGrath, Claud Pepper, Homer Ferguson, and John J. Williams, 1947 August 08
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 26
Archival Component
Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1935-1945
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
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
Atlantic City Plaza Casino Hotel: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Homer Rissman Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Atlantic City, New Jersey: panoramic photographs
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Howard Heckethorn oral history interview
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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
Howard Hughes and an unidentified man stand next to a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, 1947
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 08
Archival Component
Newspaper clippings about the Wall Street Journal investigation of Howard Hughes, 1971
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 23
Archival Component