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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel
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Photograph of Howard Hughes after arriving in Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 14, 1938
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Photograph of a crowd greeting Howard Hughes at Bennett Field Airport, July 14, 1938
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Shauna Hughes oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Shauna Hughes conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 31, 2016 and October 11, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Hughes discusses her early life in New York and later moving to Ohio. She talks about attending John Carroll University, moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1982, and being a founding member of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys. Hughes recalls being appointed Henderson City Attorney, the early development of Green Valley, and the rapid growth of that area. Hughes then describes the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) explosion in 1988. In the second interview, Hughes discusses her work as Henderson City Attorney. She describes collaborating with elected city officials, the development of the Galleria Mall, and the establishment of Nevada State College (NSC). Lastly, Hughes talks about community support for new infrastructure in Henderson.
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Howard Hughes sitting in the Northrop Gamma Racer in New York after setting new Miami-New York speed record, 1936 April 21
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Howard Hughes's around-the-world flight photographs, 1938
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Materials depict the celebrations of Howard Hughes's circumnavigation flight in 1938. Along with a crew consisting of Harry Connor, Tom Thurlow, Richard Stoddart, and Ed Lund, Hughes flew the Super Electra on a global circumnavigation flight. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and the crew departed Floyd Bennett Field in New York and flew to Paris, France, Moscow, Russia, Omsk, Russia, Yakutsk, Russia, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota before landing back in New York on July 14. The photographs primarily depict the parades thrown for Hughes after completion of the flight. The photographs also depict Hughes and his crew meeting with New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at New York City Hall, the National Press Association, and crowds of onlookers who attended the plane's landings in various cities.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 15, 1938
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Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947
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#67121: Valdex, Jesus (Student) Interns at New York-New York, 2009 July 09
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2000s)
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Minority Recruiting in the New York City Police Department by the New York City Rand Institute, 1971 May
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ardis Kearns Papers
Box/Folder: Box 18
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