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Howard Hughes giving an interview in front of his converted B-23 bomber at LaGuardia Field following his transcontinental flight from Culver City to New York, 1946 September 12
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 22
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 22
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Howard Hughes giving an interview in front of his converted B-23 bomber at LaGuardia Field following his transcontinental flight from Culver City to New York, 1946 September 12
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 22
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 22
Archival Component
Coleen York Wilson oral history interview
Identifier
OH-03272
Abstract
Oral history interview with Coleen York Wilson conducted by Claytee D. White on June 4, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Wilson talks about growing up in Fordyce, Arkansas before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953 at the age of eighteen. She mentions that her parents had moved to Nevada in 1940 to work at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), living in a trailer before returning to Fordyce two years later. She then discusses moving to Las Vegas to join an older sister and relates that she did not remember any discrimination in seating or eating meals during her bus trip. After this, Wilson lists the jobs she held in Las Vegas before her retirement in 1984, including work at the Las Vegas Cleaners, serving as a school crossing guard, and working as a housekeeping supervisor at the Stardust Resort Hotel, the Hacienda Resort Hotel, and Circus Circus Hotel and Casino before taking a job at the Nevada Test Site. She also talks about her family, her church activities, and her regret at not attending college.
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes and Albert Lodwick, January 19, 1937
Date
1937-01-19
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes (left) and Albert Lodwick (right). Text printed on an accompanying strip of paper: "After Hughes' record breaking flight. Howard Hughes, sportsman pilot who flew from Los Angeles to Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 19, in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 27 seconds, knocking over 2 hours from his previous record, is shown at left as he discussed the flight with A. L. Lodwick at the latter's home in New York, January 19th. Credit Line (ACME) 1/19/37 NY LA."
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Howard Hughes at the Newark Airport, New Jersey, January 19, 1937
Date
1937-01-19
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes near his Hughes Racer at Newark Airport after breaking the coast-to-coast record from Burbank to Newark in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 27 seconds. The distance he covered was 2490 miles while he was going an average speed of 332 mph. This record bettered his previous record by two hours.
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Partial Test Ban Treaty Amendment Conference, New York, New York
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Nevada Desert Experience Records
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Collection Number: MS-00524
Collection Name: Nevada Desert Experience Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: Nevada Desert Experience Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1943
Date
1942 to 1944
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes emerging from the Trans World Atlantic (TWA) transcontinental plane after the aircraft landed.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa 1943
Date
1942 to 1944
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes emerging from the Trans World Atlantic (TWA) transcontinental plane after the aircraft landed.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, August 17, 1954
Date
1954-08-17
Archival Collection
Description
Portrait of Howard Hughes, August 17, 1954. This photo was used in the Hughes Aircraft Company's corporate publications.
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