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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946
Date
1946-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hercules Wing Squeezes Through Town Redondo Beach, Calif. - School children throng to watch the 34-ton wing section of Howard Hughes' Hercules, world's largest flying boat, as it is cautiously engineered on house-moving dollies through Redondo Beach, Calif., on the way to specially built $200,000 dock at Terminal Island, Calif. Creditline (ACME). 6/13/46."
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Red Cross volunteer, Royella Shrewsbery, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, 1977 July 15
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00277
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 03
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes standing on stage, Chicago, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes standing on a stage with other unidentified men and women in front of a crowd in Chicago.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and other men, circa 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (second from right) posing with other unidentified men in a building possibly located in Texas.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes talking to an unidentified man, Chicago, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes conversing with an unidentified man after landing the Lockheed 14 aircraft in Chicago.
Image
Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946
Date
1946-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Giant Wing Nears End of Journey, Long Beach, Calif. -- Traveling at a snails pace of 2 1/2 miles per hour, hauling truck slowly pulls a wing of Howard Hughes' mammoth plane across a pontoon bridge in the Tideland Oil fields. Almost half the tremendous job of transporting the $200,000,000 flying boat to its destination has been completed. Credit (ACME). 6-14-46."
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Photograph of Howard Hughes at the Chicago Municipal Airport, Chicago, May 14, 1936
Date
1936-05-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes surrounded by unidentified people at the Chicago Municipal Airport. Printed on a paper included with the photograph: "Millionaire Speed King. Howard Hughes, Multimillionaire movie producer and speed flyer, at the Chicago Municipal Airport preparing for a flight to Los Angeles, Calif., in which he hopes to set a new speed record. Credit Line (ACME) 5/14/36."
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Architectural drawing of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas), detail plan, first floor casino part A, July 18, 1966
Date
1966-07-18
Archival Collection
Description
First floor detail plan from 1966 for the New Frontier Hotel and Casino. Includes revision dates, notes, and material key. Original medium: pencil on parchment. Socoloske, Zelner and Associates, structural engineers; Ira Tepper and Associates, mechanical engineers; J. L. Cusick and Associates, electrical engineers.
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Hotel Tropicana: additions, new gourmet kitchen, dishwashing room, and Brazilian room, 1966 July 7; 1966 September 21
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
JMA Architecture Studio Records
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Collection Number: MS-00783
Collection Name: JMA Architecture Studio Records
Box/Folder: Roll 06
Collection Name: JMA Architecture Studio Records
Box/Folder: Roll 06
Archival Component
Howard Hughes at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.: Howard Hughes, Constantin A. Dumansky, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy; General Oscar Westover; Jesse Jones; and Chairman of the R.F.C. and Count De Saint-Quentin, the French Ambassador, 1938 July 21
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Archival Component