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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."

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Photograph of the New Frontier, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Description

Crash Corrigon arrives at the New Frontier hotel. Site Name: Frontier Hotel and Casino

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Architecture, Engineering, and Planning Education: A Development Plan for UNLV by Hugh Burgess, 1980

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations Records
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Collection Number: UA-00047
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations Records
Box/Folder: Box 15 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Architecture, Engineering, and Planning Education: A Development Plan for UNLV by Hugh Burgess, 1980

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: UA-00047
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations Records
Box/Folder: Box 15 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Photograph of Howard Hughes, Frank Merrian and Frank Shaw in a Los Angeles parade, August 1, 1938

Date

1938-08-01

Description

From left to right, Governor Frank Merrian, Howard Hughes, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw riding in a car in a parade on 5th Street in Los Angeles in 1938.

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Bally's Park Place (New Jersey)

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File

Archival Collection

Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00658
Collection Name: Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming
Box/Folder: N/A

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Aerial photograph of the Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, circa 1946

Date

1946

Description

Aerial view of Hughes HK-1, Flying Boat. The plane was designed and built by Howard Hughes; it it shown near completion at its graving dock at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. Transcribed from note on back of photo: "World's largest airplane--After Ground tests here the plane will undergo extensive water-taxi tests."

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15, 2003

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions
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Collection Number: MS-00615
Collection Name: Guide to the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival Submissions
Box/Folder: Box 2003-027

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