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Photograph of Howard Hughes, Washington, D.C., August 1947

Date

1947-08

Description

Howard Hughes pictured after Senate hearings in Washington, D.C. in 1947.

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Photograph of Wengert children, 1935-1938

Date

1935 to 1938

Archival Collection

Description

Four of the Wengert children, Ward, Marilyn, Shirley, and Robert, stand and pose together outdoors.

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Photograph of Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

A street scene of downtown Beatty. "Beatty Nevada Gateway to Death Valley" is written on the bottom of the photo.

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Photograph of Hughes XF-11 in flight, April 4, 1947

Date

1947-04-04

Description

Date stamped on back of photo: April 3, 1947. Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES FLIES DUPLICATE OF CRASH PLANE CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5 -- Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, today test-piloted the plane pictured here, a duplicate of the XF-11 photo-reconnaissance ship which he nearly lost his life in an accident last July 7. He designed and built the plane for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers. He has recovered from the injuries sustained last year when the freak propeller trouble dashed the original XF-11 to earth. As usual, he today took personal responsibility for the first test flight of the new plane." The actual flying date is April 4, 1947.

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Photograph of flooded street in Saint Thomas, Nevada, June 1938

Date

1938-06

Description

A shack on fire, probably Hugh Lords', in Saint Thomas flooding.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and an unidentified man, circa 1944

Date

1943 to 1945

Description

A view of Howard Hughes talking to an unidentified man.

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Geraldine Kirk-Hughes oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02200

Abstract

Oral history interview with Geraldine Kirk-Hughes conducted by Larry Sampson on November 28, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview Kirk-Hughes relates her birth and upbringing in Simmersport, Louisiana, becoming a teen mother, earning a GED and earning her first college degree before marrying and moving to Greece and Dubai. She then explains how she returned to the United States to earn her masters degree before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978. She discusses her second marriage, her decision to attend law school, and her decision to go into private practice instead of working for a law firm. She talks about cases she worked on, people in the community she knew, and the effects of discrimination on her work and career. She ends by talking about her third marriage and sharing thoughts on how the Las Vegas African American community has lost some of the cohesiveness and unity of earlier decades.

Archival Collection

Various Hughes Electronics/Hughes Aircraft Company organizational charts, 1984 to 1995

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Aircraft Retirees Association Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01146
Collection Name: Hughes Aircraft Retirees Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 02

Archival Component

Howard Hughes and Earl Martyn inside of the HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat, 1947

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 11

Archival Component

Letter from Howard Hughes to the general manager of Hughes Aircraft Company, 1949

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component