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Conceptual sketch of the Bourbon Street Slots inside the Showboat Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Clara Bow at 16, after winning the National Fame and Fortune Contest in New York City, New York: photographic print: photographic negative, 1921
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 17
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and others in front of the XH-17 helicopter, Culver City, California, October 23, 1952
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Archival Collection
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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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The Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection depicts the activities of businessman Howard Hughes from 1930 to 1950. The photographs primarily depict aircraft flown by Hughes or designed by the Hughes Aircraft Company, including the XF-11 reconnaissance plane, the HK-1 Hercules (or "Spruce Goose"), and the Hughes H-1 Racer. The photographs also depict celebrations following Hughes's circumnavigation flight in New York City, New York and Chicago, Illinois in 1938. Lastly, the photographs include Hughes testifying in front of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program in 1947.
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes standing with an unidentified reporter next to the second XF-11 after landing in New York, 1947 July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Archival Component
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the new XF-11 reconnaissance plane preparing for its first flight, 1946 July 07
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark, New Jersey Airport, 1936 January 13
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 07
Archival Component
Howard Hughes leaves Newark, New Jersey Airport with party en route to Washington, D.C., 1938 July 21
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
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Newspaper clippings and photographs about the National Hadassah Convention held in New York City, 1965
Description
Newspaper clipping, At NYC Convention, The Las Vegas Sun, August 13, 1965; Photograph of Rose Rich, Fran Cohen and Neva Schwartz at banquet honoring Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Nelson Rockefeller; Photograph of Lillian Heller, Ella Wohl, Fran Cohen, Ethel Lasobnick, Rose Rich and Reva Schwartz at Region Award Party; Photograph of Hadassah members boarding TWA flight
Howard Hughes at the controls of plane before leaving Glendale, California, on a nonstop flight to New York, 1938 August 20
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 17
Archival Component