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Hugh Key oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Hugh Key conducted by Bob Bush on February 21, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Key discusses spending over thirty years in Las Vegas, Nevada. His wife, Mrs. Key, is also present during the interview and offers a few remarks.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes out for dinner, circa 1937
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa early 1940s
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1940s - 1950s
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Hughes Family, 1937-1956
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Materials contain photographs from the Hughes Family of the Pahrump Ranch from 1937 to 1956. Materials include photographs of animals, ranch work, and old buildings.
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Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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Hughes HK-1 Hercules photographs, 1945-1947
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Materials contain photographs of the HK-1 Hercules, otherwise known as the "Spruce Goose" or the "Flying Boat," from 1945 to 1947. The photographs primarily depict the construction, transportation, and storage of the plane, but also include the first and only test flight of the HK-1 above Los Angeles Harbor in 1947. Howard Hughes designed the HK-1 as the world's largest plane, capable of transporting large quantities of U.S. military hardware and personnel. In 1947, under the program's new designation H-4 Hercules, Hughes had the plane transported from his factory in Culver City, California to Los Angeles Harbor. On November 2, he piloted the plane during its only test flight. The U.S. Air Force abandoned the controversial project, and Hughes was called to testify before the Truman Committee of the U.S. Senate to justify the use of government funds on a program that never succeeded.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Photograph of Hughes H-1 Racer, November 14, 1945
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An exterior view of the North Las Vegas City Hall framed by the roofline of a medical office building on North McDaniel Street in North Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
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From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Las Vegas Boulevard and Lake Mead Boulevard.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others, circa 1930s
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Photograph of Howard Hughes checking the Hughes Flying Boat, Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947
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