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Howard Hughes behind his plane at Le Bourget Airfield, France, 1938 July
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File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Archival Component
Police lined up ready for the start of the Howard Hughes parade, 1938 July 15
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File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 10
Archival Component
Map of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, 1855
Date
1855
Description
29 x 36 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Office of the U.S. for the Southern. Dist. of New York." Hand colored. Decorative border. Atlas p. number in lower-right margin: 67. Shows routes of explorers, proposed railroad routes, wagon route, mail route, Indian reserves and mines. On verso: History and statistical view of Mexico. Original publisher: J.H. Colton.
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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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Photograph of Howard Hughes' plane at Floyd Bennet Airfield, New York, August 20, 1938
Date
1938-08-20
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photograph: "Hughes sets new transcontinental transport mark. Floyd Bennet Field, NY--- Howard Hughes, millionaire flier, setting his famous round-the-world transport plane down here, early August 20th, after a record-smashing flight from Los Angeles. Hughes and three companions completed the trip in 10 hours 32 minutes and 20 seconds, shattering the record of 11 hours and five minutes set four years ago by Tommy Tomlinson. The flight was made most of the way in the substratosphere at an average altitude of 17, 000 feet. Credit Line ACME."
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City map of Las Vegas, 1973
Date
1905-05-26
Description
Color; 55 x 45 cm., on sheet 95 x 47 cm., folded to 24 x 10 cm. Panel title: Las Vegas city map. Copyright held by Cardinal Publishing Company. Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations and advertisements. Index, text, illustrations, advertisements, and map of "Lake Mead National Recreation Area, lower basin section" on verso. Original publisher: Cardinal Publishing Company.
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Hoover Dam Service Bureau and Boulder City Theatre on Arizona Street in Boulder City, Nevada, approximately 1936-1938
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Archival Collection
L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15
Archival Component
Photograph of Boulder Dam Service Bureau and Boulder City Theatre exteriors, Boulder City, Nevada, circa winter 1938-1939
Date
1938 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
Exteriors of the Boulder Dam Service Bureau and Boulder City Theatre covered with snow. Snow-covered automobiles are parked on Arizona Street, and the Boulder Dam Hotel and the Union Bus Terminal can be seen in the distance.
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Pile bridge at Milepost 7.71, St. Thomas Branch, will require new structure, 1938
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Archival Collection
Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00043
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 01
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 01
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New six span pile trestle was constructed immediately west of our present bridge, 1938
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Archival Collection
Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00043
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 01
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 01
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