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Hugh Johnson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1982
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00062
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 27
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 27
Archival Component
Aerial photograph of Hughes' flying boat docked at harbor, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947
Date
1947-07-16
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken July 16, 1947. "Hughes Aircraft" stamped on the back of the image.
Image
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 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.
Image
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.
Image
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.
Image
Howard Hughes and crew at a luncheon: Harry P. Connor, navigator of the Hughes plane; Grover Whalen; Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City; Thomas Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, radio engineer; and Edward Lund, flight engineer; also William Randolph Hearst Jr. of the Hearst publishing company, 1938 July 15
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
