Search Results
Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Hawthorne, California, June 16, 1946
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Howard Hughes at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.: Howard Hughes, Constantin A. Dumansky, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy; General Oscar Westover; Jesse Jones; and Chairman of the R.F.C. and Count De Saint-Quentin, the French Ambassador, 1938 July 21
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Archival Component
Leon Hughes, son of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes, in front of the "old motel" located on the Pahrump Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. Hughes believes the motel was constructed around 1920 by the Pahrump Valley Company, under the ownership of Isodore Dockweiler, to house Dockweiler and his associates when they visited the ranch. It featured a screened porch, one bathroom, running water, a flush toilet, a kitchen, and four bedrooms. The "motel" burned down in the early 1940s.
Image
Newspaper clipping, City lifts ban on daytime watering for 15-Day period, Las Vegas Sun, July 25, 1950
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Newspaper article informing the public that the Las Vegas City Commission lifted the restriction on daytime lawn watering for 15 days, with the commission calling on volunteerism for the time period.
Text
Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel: Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1978 December 13; 1987 August 25
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Martin Stern Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes in the Northrop Gamma Racer, 1936
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Start of New York-to-Paris Race, Times Square, New York City, February 12, 1908, reproduction courtesy Harrah's Automobile Collection: photographic print: photographic negative, 1964
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
