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Cooperative agreement: Wells Siding flood control project, April 1938

Date

1938-04

Description

Agreement between the Muddy Valley Irrigation Company and the Moapa Soil Conservation District for a flood control project on Wells Siding.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes giving a news conference next to his DC-3, New York, 1947

Date

1947-04

Description

Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.

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Photograph of east-north exposures with children Betty and Robert, Las Vegas, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Description given with photograph: "East-north exposures, with children Betty and Robert."

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Photograph of Gold Point School, Gold Point, Esmeralda County, Nevada, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Exterior of Gold Point School, Esmeralda County, Nevada.

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Photograph of ruins at the Lost City site, near Overton, Nevada, 1938-1939

Date

1938 to 1939

Description

Stone ruins at the Lost City site (or Pueblo Grande de Nevada), near Overton, Nevada.

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Film negative showing an aqua plane rider on Lake Mead, January 1938

Date

1938-01

Archival Collection

Description

A shot of an aqua plane rider on Lake Mead; aqua plane rider is possibly Jack Buecrud.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes leaving the Northrop Gamma Racer, Newark, New Jersey, January 13, 1936

Date

1936-01-13

Description

Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.

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Aerial photograph of Hughes' Hercules flying boat aircraft, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947

Date

1947-07-16

Description

Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken on July 16, 1947.

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Photograph of men working in the Hughes Tool Co. factory, Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Men working on Hughes rock drilling bit piece #5411-482 at the Hughes Tool company in Houston, Texas.

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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."

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