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Franklin, Harold B. (Harold Brooks), 1889-1941
Harold Brooks Franklin was born in New York City, New York in 1889. In 1914 he entered the theatre management business, moving to Los Angeles, California in 1927. After serving as president of Fox West Coast Theatres, he formed a partnership with Howard Hughes in 1931 with the Hughes-Franklin Midwest Theatre Corporation, Incorporated. In 1933, Franklin resigned, moved back to New York, and formed an independent theatre production company. He died in Mexico City, Mexico in 1941.
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Reed, Luther
American film director Luther Reed was born on July 14, 1888 in Berlin, Wisconsin. He started his career in film as a subtite writer in the 1910s, and he eventually began directing films. Reed was the first director on Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels, although he quit shortly after production began, citing Hughes' interference as his reasoning. He died on November 16, 1971 in New York, New York.
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Photograph of Las Vegas School students, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1910
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal Photograph Collection depicts several events in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1935 to 1983 that were documented by Nevada’s largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The photographs depict the fire at the Las Vegas School in 1935, the fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1980, an exhibition at the Lost City Museum in 1973, a memorial event honoring the first permanent school in Las Vegas in 1980, and an exhibition at the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society in 1983. The collection also contains photographs of some denizens of Las Vegas, including people at the Hughes Bar in Las Vegas, the last Union Pacific passenger train in Las Vegas, and schoolchildren at the Las Vegas School.
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Bradford, Darrell A., 1930-1996
Darrell A. Bradford was born on March 19, 1930 in Spanish Fork, Utah to Moses Bradford and Anna Rigtrup. Bradford worked as an assistant manager at Alamo Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada before it was sold in 1948 by its owners, George and Peg Crockett, to Clark County and renamed McCarran International Airport. Bradford married Ruth Young in Elko, Nevada in May of 1954. Bradford died on December 22, 1996.
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