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Howard Cannon posed with others at the Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters, X-15 Test Facility in Los Angeles, California: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Menu for the Surrey Sportsman's Club, The Secretary's Feast, City of New York Restaurant, 1899 July 05
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bohn-Bettoni Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Howard Hughes's around-the-world flight photographs, 1938
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Scope and Contents
Materials depict the celebrations of Howard Hughes's circumnavigation flight in 1938. Along with a crew consisting of Harry Connor, Tom Thurlow, Richard Stoddart, and Ed Lund, Hughes flew the Super Electra on a global circumnavigation flight. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and the crew departed Floyd Bennett Field in New York and flew to Paris, France, Moscow, Russia, Omsk, Russia, Yakutsk, Russia, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota before landing back in New York on July 14. The photographs primarily depict the parades thrown for Hughes after completion of the flight. The photographs also depict Hughes and his crew meeting with New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at New York City Hall, the National Press Association, and crowds of onlookers who attended the plane's landings in various cities.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Galt House, lunch menu, Sunday, July 15, 1883
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Archival Collection
Description
Text
McDonald, John. Howard Hughes's biggest surprises, Fortune 74(1), 1966 July 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 08
Archival Component
MGM Grand, New York New York, and housing shelter B-roll, 1997
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Scope and Contents
Nighttime B-roll of MGM Grand and New York New York. Interview with a resident and B-roll of an unidentified housing shelter. Original media BetacamSP, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 720 x 486.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV TV Audiovisual Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Box 03
Archival Component
Howard Cannon Papers
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The Howard Cannon Papers (1958-1988) contain the personal, administrative, and legislative papers of Howard W. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Nevada between 1959 to 1983. The collection primarily pertains to Cannon's time in office from the 86th Congress in 1959 to the 97th Congress in 1983. Materials include correspondence, speech transcripts and supporting research material, press releases, reports, memoranda, newspaper and magazine clippings, and Senate voting records. The collection also includes constituent correspondence and casework related to legislative issues such as foreign relations, social security, veterans, tax reform, labor, aviation, nuclear testing and waste, civil rights, and environmental protection.
For a detailed inventory, please contact Special Collections and Archives (special.collections@unlv.edu).
Archival Collection
Invoices for distributed film prints, 1931 July 27 to 1931 November 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 498 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Mary E. Habbart by Pamela Larkins, July 15, 1975
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Archival Collection
Description
On July 15, 1975, Pamela Larkins interviewed Mary E. Habbart (born 1897 in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania) in her home in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two discuss Habbart’s personal family history and her family’s reasons for moving to Las Vegas. Habbart also describes social and economic changes to Las Vegas and her local dairy farm.
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