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Photograph of the interior of the Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, October 31, 1947
Date
1947-10-31
Archival Collection
Description
Men working inside of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. Transcribed from note on back of photo: "Inside the Boat: Shown in a view looking toward the tail of the Hughes Flying Boat, the man is dwarfed by the giant interior of the airplane."
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Photograph of a jet plane designed by Howard Hughes, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
A plane, designed by Howard Hughes, parked on a field with a group of people in the foreground. The plane is numbered, CF-EJO-X, and it is an Avro Canada Jetline.
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Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups by Julian H. Steward, 1938
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Archaeo-Nevada Society Records
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Collection Number: MS-00728
Collection Name: Archaeo-Nevada Society Records
Box/Folder: Box 13
Collection Name: Archaeo-Nevada Society Records
Box/Folder: Box 13
Archival Component
Photograph of Boulder City Elementary School, Boulder City, Nevada, October 5, 1932
Date
1932-10-05
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of school children in front of the Boulder City Elementary School, now the home of City Hall, located at 401 California Avenue in Boulder City. Four hundred of the 550 enrolled pupils are seen in front of the school.
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Photograph of a man working at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT TEST In a block-long laboratory at Houston, Texas, the Hughes Tool Company can simulate oil drilling conditions anywhere in the world. Here a Hughes bit is tested on a hard formation. Howard Hughes' father invented the rock bit in 1908 and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his fabulous industrial empire in motion pictures, air transportation, aeronautical research and design, aircraft manufacture, electronics, armament and brewing."
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Hughes Flite Deck Restaurant and Omni Bar at the Hughes Executive Terminal. Credit to Theodore F. Whitmoyer: photographic print, approximately 1968 to 1972
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00237
Collection Name: Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Collection Name: Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Archival Component
Photograph of Tamarisk trees sticking out of the water in St. Thomas, Nevada, circa June, 1938
Date
1938 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
The tops of tamerisk trees show above the water line of Lake Mead at St. Thomas, Nevada.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "What was once the main throughfare and entrance to the prosperous little Mormon town of St. Thomas now shows only the tops of the tamarix (sic) trees which lined its irrigation ditches. (phto by E. Edwards)"
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and unidentified man on the flight deck of the Flying Boat, May 12, 1947
Date
1947-05-12
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "Howard Hughes, right, noted aircraft designer and industrialist is shown for the first time on the flight deck of the famed Hughes flying boat, which he designed and built. It is the largest airplane in the world. The plane is now nearing completion on Terminal Island, in Los Angeles-Long Bay Harbor, May 12, 1947." Los Angeles Harbor is now known as Long Beach Harbor, California.
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The Battle for Peace by Jones, F. Elwyn. Victor Gollancz LTD, 1938
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01144
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Archival Component