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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 03, 1947
Date
1947-11-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."
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Cities and towns
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00651
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
City employees
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00651
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library District Collection on Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
City government
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Henderson Public Library Photograph Collection on Henderson, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00254
Collection Name: Henderson Public Library Photograph Collection on Henderson, Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Collection Name: Henderson Public Library Photograph Collection on Henderson, Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Silver City
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Bill Willard Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00435
Collection Name: Bill Willard Papers
Box/Folder: Box 33
Collection Name: Bill Willard Papers
Box/Folder: Box 33
Archival Component
Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."
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Photograph of the Boulder City Company Commissary, Boulder City (Nev.), approximately 1930-1936
Date
1930 to 1936
Archival Collection
Description
The Boulder City Company Commissary located between Cherry and Birch Streets in Boulder City, Nevada.
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Photograph of a crowd greeting Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of a crowd of people gathering to greet Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "17. Rail birds, part of crowd that waited all nite. International news. (Evening Herald)."
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Postcard of City Hall, Ely, Nevada, 1909
Date
1909
Archival Collection
Description
A picture postcard of the City Hall in Ely with a letter is written on the back.
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