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Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft Company photographs, 1917-1997
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Materials contain photographs of Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft Company from 1917 to 1997. The photographs primarily depict factories, laboratories, and tools produced by the Hughes Tool Company. The Hughes Aircraft Company was founded in 1932 as a division of Hughes Tool Company.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Las Vegas Convention Center: East Hall expansion, 1975 October 15; 1977 April 1
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: JMA Architecture Studio Records
Box/Folder: Roll 24
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Galt House, lunch menu, Sunday, July 15, 1883
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Archival Collection
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Hughes' H-1 Racer aircraft, circa 1937
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the Hughes H-1 Racer, circa 1937
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Archival Collection
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Image
Tiger Tim's Weekly with crayon book, no. 870. London: Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1938 July 23
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: Box 23
Archival Component
Pearl Hughes oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Pearl Hughes conducted by Katherine D. Beal on February 11, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In the interview, Hughes discusses her family's early arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada after moving from Salinas, California. Her family then bought and operated a motel in North Las Vegas, Nevada between the late 1940s to 1950. Hughes also discusses the growth of the hotel and casino industry, city urban development, community interactions, Las Vegas, Nevada celebrities, atomic testing, and President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Archival Collection