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Hughes and Purdy - Nevada Iron and Metals, 1947-1954
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 07
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 07
Archival Component
Photograph of the Lockheed 14, July 10, 1938
Date
1938-07-10
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of the Lockheed 14. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Hughes plane starts ocean hop."
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Proposed Casino-Hotel on SW corner of Tropicana and South Las Vegas Boulevard: Las Vegas, Nevada, 1964 July 20; 1964 September 15
Level of Description
Series
Scope and Contents
This set includes drawings prepared for Jos. B. Simon and Co. (client).
Archival Collection
Homer Rissman Architectural Records
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Collection Number: MS-00452
Collection Name: Homer Rissman Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: Homer Rissman Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of the Hughes Tool Company's hard formation rock bit type R-1, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes Tool Company's hard formation rock bit type R-1 was the engineering marvel on which the Hughes fortune was founded. The bit was invented by Howard Hughes' father.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes testifying before the Senate War Investigating Committee, Washington D.C., August 6, 1947
Date
1947-08-06
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes speaks into a microphone as he testifies before the Senate War Investigating Committee, August 6, 1947, in Washington, D.C.
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Photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat leaving its Culver City hangar, California, 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
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