Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 2321 - 2330 of 75877

Howard Hughes Center preview booklet, approximately 1986 to 1988

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01091
Collection Name: Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
Box/Folder: Box 05

Archival Component

Biography: Eldridge, Sean and Chris Hughes, 2013 July 10

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 05

Archival Component

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan, 1945 November

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Beverly Rogers Collection of Armed Services Editions
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00913
Collection Name: Beverly Rogers Collection of Armed Services Editions
Box/Folder: Box 33

Archival Component

The Hughes Estates Businesses, summary of operations, 1988 June 23

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01091
Collection Name: Thomas L. Morgan Real Estate Development Records
Box/Folder: Box 06

Archival Component

Transcript of interview with Edna Jackson-Ferguson, April 15, 1975

Date

1975-04-15

Description

On April 15, 1975, Edna Jackson-Ferguson (born 1897 in Overbrook, Kansas) provided a narrative-style oral history about her and her husband Jack’s experiences during the building of the Hoover Dam. Jackson-Ferguson provides many details about the way of life living in the camp with workers of the dam, the tasks required of those workers in building the dam, and some of the actual processes of pouring the concrete for the structure. She also talks about food, transportation, weather, and entertainment during the time. To conclude the interview, Jackson-Ferguson mentions some of the other job positions her husband held and their pride in being a part of the Hoover Dam’s construction.

Text

Young stallion named Snit belonging to John Hughes, 1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00221
Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 14

Archival Component

Leon Hughes and his family in the Pahrump Valley, 1954-1956

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00221
Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 14

Archival Component

Hughes Hotel Properties Vice President of Publicity James Vernon: photographs

Date

1963 to 1977

Description

Series X. Employees

Sands Hotel and Casino

Mixed Content

Howard Hughes; Hughes's lawyer T. A. Slack; John B. Parkinson, representative of the national Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Edward Schwartz, former member of the Air Force Evaluation Board; E. A. Peterman; and Glen Odekirk, an executive of the Hughes's Plant, 1947 November 08

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

Archival Component

Photograph of the Hughes Tool Co. Drilling Laboratory, Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "DRILLING LABORATORY The fundamental purpose of all Hughes rock bit research is to improve bit performance. In attaining this improvement it is necessary to balance design with the application of correct metallurgical materials and manufacturing methods. The preliminary proving ground is the Drilling laboratory housed in the main Laboratory building. Its field-size drilling rig, with 118 ft. derrick, was especially designed to test rock bits in a manner simulating oilfield drilling conditions."

Image