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Photograph of Maude Frazier Hall construction, Nevada Southern University, circa 1957
Date
1950 to 1960
Archival Collection
Description
View of one of the walls being constructed at the Maude Frazier Hall construction site at Nevada Southern University (NSU).
Image
Slide of the cowboy neon sign at the Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall, Laughlin, Nevada, 1986
Date
1986
Archival Collection
Description
A color image of the cowboy neon sign at the Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall. Site Name: Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall (Laughlin, Nev.)
Image
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."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes, surrounded by crowds, as he stands before a microphone after landing his Lockheed 14 aircraft for the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York.
Image
Susan Hall, daughter of former publisher of Pahrump Valley Star Kathy Ledford Hall: photographic print, approximately 1979 to 1982
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Agnes Lynch Photograph Collection on Pahrump, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00218
Collection Name: Agnes Lynch Photograph Collection on Pahrump, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Collection Name: Agnes Lynch Photograph Collection on Pahrump, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Photograph of John D. Home, Howard Hughes, and Edward Underwood, circa late 1950s
Date
1957 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Standing from left to right are John D. Home (Department of Communications of the American Legion), Howard Hughes (Managing Director of Production of RKO), and Edward Underwood (Department of Communications of Hollywood American Legion Motion Picture Post #43), in the late 1950s.
Image
Photograph of people dancing inside the Town Hall Casino, Tonopah (Nev.), 1950-1959
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Unidentified men and women dance in the Town Hall Lounge, near what appears to be a fireplace. Site Name: Town Hall Casino
Image
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.
Image
Photograph of Sunderland Talmudical College study hall, 1950s
Description
David Torjman is at bottom left.