Search Results
Emeril's New Orleans Fish House, menu, 1997 July 02
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Menu Collection
Box/Folder: Box 24
Archival Component
Map of California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, circa 1867
Date
Description
Image
New Frontier Hotel Venus Room: menu, 1956 July 16
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bob Stoldal Collection of Nevada Menus
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
New Frontier Hotel Venus Room: menu, 1956 July 16
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Bob Stoldal Collection of Nevada Menus
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 03
Archival Component
Unknown author. Vice in New York, Fortune 20(1), 1939 July
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 09
Archival Component
Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Howard Hughes talking to members of the press, possibly about his completion of his around-the-world flight in New York City, New York, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13
Archival Component
Publicity photographs of Howard Hughes and Hughes aircraft and clippings about technical drawings of Hughes aircraft: photograph album
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Mixed Content
Shauna Hughes oral history interviews
Identifier
Abstract
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.
Archival Collection
Plan of proposed new well pipe and fittings for Las Vegas, Nevada, 1936
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image