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Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall: postcards, image 005

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Postcards - Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV. (before and after expansion)

Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall: postcards, image 006

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Postcards - Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV. (before and after expansion)

Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall: postcards, image 007

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Postcards - Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV. (before and after expansion)

Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall: postcards, image 008

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Postcards - Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV. (before and after expansion)

Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 11, 1947

Date

1947-08-11

Description

Description given with photo: "Hughes Alone As Probers Recess Till Fall, Washington, D.C. - Plane builder Howard Hughes, above, sat alone in the normally jam-packed senate caucus room today after war investigating sub-committee chairman Homer Ferguson, (R) of Mich., announced that because of the disappearance of press agent John W. Meyer, the Hughes war contract investigation has been recessed until November 17, 1947. Hughes, shown checking his private papers, wrathfully termed the postponement action by the sub-committee chairman as "ridiculous." -INP Photo by A.E. Scott- 8/11/47."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 06, 1947

Date

1947-08-06

Description

Description given with photo: "Pensive, Washington: Howard Hughes, millionaire plane manufacturer, ponders a question put to him during today's session (Aug. 6) of the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee. The subcommittee is investigating Hughes' war plane contracts. Credit line (ACME). 8/6/47."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Northrop Gamma Racer, January 1936

Date

1936-01

Description

A view of the front of Howard Hughes' Northrop Gamma Racer.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Description

Howard Hughes sitting inside the Lockheed 14 aircraft.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the Northrop Gamma Racer, New York, 1936

Date

1936

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes in New York. Text printed on a card included with the image: "Howard Hughes and Albert Lodwick beside Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at the Floyd Bennett Airport after breaking the record from Miami to New York in 4 hours and 21 minutes (distance 1095 miles; average speed 250 mph; high speed 290 mph). This bettered Jimmy Wedell's July 1933 record by 36 minutes. New York, New York."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and other men, circa late 1930s

Date

1935 to 1939

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes and two unidentified men standing in front of an outline chart of the world.

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