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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 03, 1947
Date
1947-11-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."
Image
Central Park, New York City, New York: panoramic photograph, 1981 May 31
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00414
Collection Name: Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 07, Digital File 00
Collection Name: Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 07, Digital File 00
Archival Component
Central Park, New York City, New York: panoramic photograph, 1981 May 31
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00414
Collection Name: Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 07, Digital File 00
Collection Name: Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 07, Digital File 00
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947
Date
1947-08-16
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes (right) being asked about his controversial XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane by Senator Harry Cain (left), Republican of Washington, in Culver City, California. An unidentified man sits between the two.
Image
Photograph of library office in Grant Hall, Nevada Southern University, circa 1960-1961
Date
1960 to 1961
Archival Collection
Description
The Nevada Southern University (NSU) Library when it was housed in Grant Hall. Stacks and reading room are seen here.
Image
Slide of Anderson Brothers Dining Hall, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936
Date
1931 to 1936
Archival Collection
Description
Interior view of the Anderson Brothers Dining Hall for the men working on the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada.
Image
Postcard showing the interior of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall (Las Vegas), after 1946
Date
1946 to 1960
Archival Collection
Description
Bar area of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall. Printed text on back of postcard: "The million dollar Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Saloon and Restaurant, Las Vegas, Nevada, 'where fortune smiles,' See the old-style West in our modern world. A place of mahogany bars, crystal chandeliers, with the genuine hospitality and old-time gaity of the Barbary Coast and the Virginia City of fifty years ago. 'Plastichrome' by Colourpicture, Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A"
Site Name: Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Address: 129 East Fremont Street
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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."
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Photograph of a crowd greeting Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of a crowd of people gathering to greet Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "17. Rail birds, part of crowd that waited all nite. International news. (Evening Herald)."
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Las Vegas Convention Center: East Hall expansion, 1981
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00855
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 008
Collection Name: J. A. Tiberti Construction Records
Box/Folder: Box 008
Archival Component