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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Clara Bow after winning the National Fame and Fortune Contest in New York City, New York: photographic print
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Shauna Hughes oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Shauna Hughes conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 31, 2016 and October 11, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Hughes discusses her early life in New York and later moving to Ohio. She talks about attending John Carroll University, moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1982, and being a founding member of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys. Hughes recalls being appointed Henderson City Attorney, the early development of Green Valley, and the rapid growth of that area. Hughes then describes the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) explosion in 1988. In the second interview, Hughes discusses her work as Henderson City Attorney. She describes collaborating with elected city officials, the development of the Galleria Mall, and the establishment of Nevada State College (NSC). Lastly, Hughes talks about community support for new infrastructure in Henderson.
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes in his Lockheed 14 aircraft, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 1938
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 06
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Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
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Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
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Howard Hughes emerging from his airplane after landing in New York, 1947 April
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02, Flat File 01
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Committee to Save the Hughes Flying Boat newspaper clippings, 1980 July
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Howard Hughes on a ladder, climbing into the XF-11, 1946 July 07
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 09
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Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, 1947 July 07
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 12
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