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Agreement with City of Las Vegas, 1938
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 94
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 94
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and Edmund T. Allen, Seattle, Washington, July 7, 1938
Date
1938-07-07
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes tests the Hughes plane. Seattle--Howard Hughes (right), millionaire aviation enthusiast and record holder, shown with Edmund T. Allen, Boeing test engineer, before they made a recent test flight in a Boeing-built Stratoliner. The huge machine was equipped with extra fuel tanks for the test. Hughes did not reveal the reasons for his interest in the four-motored, 30 passenger plane, designed for substratosphere flight."
Image
Photograph of a parade for Howard Hughes, Chicago, July 30, 1938
Date
1938-07-30
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Hughes and Flyers Welcomed to Chicago - A view of the parade staged in honor of Howard Hughes and his four companions passing down La Salle Street, Chicago, in a shower of ticker-tape and paper. The flyers, who circled the globe in 3 days and 19 hours, are in the first three autos. Credit Lines (ACME) 7/30/38 (NY)."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes, Bennett Field, New York, July 4, 1938
Date
1938-07-04
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes sitting in an unidentified aircraft in a hangar at Bennett Field, New York.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes in New York, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Scene at Floyd Bennett Field as Howard Hughes and his crew landed after completing a round the world hop. 7-14-38. (Press Association)."
Image
Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "New York reception for Howard Hughes and his companions after completing a round the world flight. 7-15-38 (Press Association)."
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes and the Lockheed 14 in Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1938
Date
1938-07
Archival Collection
Description
A view of Howard Hughes after disembarking the Lockheed 14 aircraft.
Image
Photograph of Alexander Troyanovsky and Howard Hughes at the Moscow Airdrome, Russia, July 12, 1938
Date
1938-07-12
Archival Collection
Description
L-R: Alexander Troyanovsky (Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.) and Howard Hughes at the Moscow Airdrome, Moscow, Russia, July 12, 1938. Original item may indicate alternate date: 7/2/38.
Image
Photograph of North Las Vegas City Hall, 1966
Date
1966 to 1979
Archival Collection
Description
A black and white picture of the North Las Vegas City Hall.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes waving to crowds in a parade, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938
Date
1938-07-30
Archival Collection
Description
Howard Hughes waving to crowds in a parade in Houston, Texas in 1938.
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