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Howard Hughes, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Grover Whalen leaving City Hall, 1938 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
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Howard Hughes, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Grover Whalen leaving City Hall, 1938 July 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Archival Component
Leon Hughes, son of John R. Hughes, on the Pahrump Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. John Hughes was then the owner of the ranch.
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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
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Scope and Contents
Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
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Section of the "Spruce Goose" or Flying Boat being moved with a police escort from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Los Angeles Harbor, 1946 June
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Archival Component
Section of the "Spruce Goose" or Flying Boat being moved with a police escort from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Los Angeles Harbor, 1946 June
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 14
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and a crowd with the Hughes XH-17, October 23, 1952
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Archival Collection
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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel
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Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft Company photographs, 1917-1997
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Materials contain photographs of Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft Company from 1917 to 1997. The photographs primarily depict factories, laboratories, and tools produced by the Hughes Tool Company. The Hughes Aircraft Company was founded in 1932 as a division of Hughes Tool Company.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A
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Hugh H. Brown Papers
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The Hugh Henry Brown Papers consist of professional and personal papers (1902-1927) from Hugh Henry Brown, who was a lawyer in Tonopah, Nevada. The professional communication focuses on Brown's law practice dealing primarily with mining and railroad companies in Central Nevada. The papers also contain receipts from purchases made by Brown or his wife, Marjorie Moore Brown.
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