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Howard Hughes's around-the-world flight photographs, 1938
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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.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Howard Schwartz Collection on Gaming
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The Howard Schwartz Collection on Gaming documents the gaming industry in the United States from 1966 to 2010. The collection includes manuscripts, periodicals, newspaper articles, ephemera, profit and probability profiles and a report from the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
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Howard Hughes College of Engineering Senior Design Competition held inside The Great hall on December 7, 2011: digital photographs
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Harry Hall oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Harry Hall conducted by Dennis McBride on June 20, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. Hall discusses how the hope of work on the dam encouraged his move to Nevada with his mother and stepfather. He then talks at some length about living in a tent in Ragtown, the various illegal bootlegging establishments along the dirt road running between Las Vegas and Boulder City, Nevada, and working on the dam. He continues talking about working conditions, the heat, and the labor strike at the dam in August, 1931.
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#68285: College of Engineering Fall Alumni Reception inside the Thomas Beam Engineering Great Hall on September 15, 2011, 2011 September 15
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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William D. Howard, Marcus Howard, Nancy Howard Copley, Mary Josephine Baxter Howard, Ollie Howard Lohr, Allie Howard Moxley, Lyght Howard, and Minnie Howard, Oregon, undated
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Collection Name: Josephine Johnson Foster Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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U.S. Senator Howard Cannon after winning the primary election, 1982 September 15
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Collection Name: Las Vegas Sun Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 03
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#65547: Healy, Mary - Gallery Naming, Lobby of Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, 2007 February 15
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2000s)
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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel
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Sallie O. Hall: photographic print
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