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#00773: Cedar City Shakespeare Festival - prepublicity, 1973 July 03

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-01
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (1970s)
Box/Folder: N/A

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United Artists Corporation pressbook rejected from consideration by Howard Hughes, 1949 July 08

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Howard Hughes Film Production Records
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Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 112 (Restrictions apply)

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Howard Cannon posed with two women from Nevada: photographic negative, 1982 July 21

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Howard Cannon Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00192
Collection Name: Howard Cannon Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-026

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Photograph of the XF-11 as it is about to take off for its first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Transcribed from attachment to photo: "NEW LONG-RANGE PLANE ANNOUNCED CULVER CITY, CALIF., The FX-11 took off today on its first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photographic planes, it was designed and built by Howard Hughes in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. It has a wing spread of 101 feet, 4 inches, and is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Army officials said it can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour and has a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947."

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Howard B. Lewis regarding employee regulations and contracts, 1929 April 01 to 1932 July 22

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Howard Hughes Film Production Records
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Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 489 (Restrictions apply)

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Photograph of the first XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 3, 1947

Date

1946-07-03

Description

The XF-11 plane before its first flight at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California.

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Howard Hughes standing with other unidentified men near his plane in the hangar at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Los Angeles, California, 1938

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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 15

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Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel, 1938 August 01

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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 16

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Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel, 1938 August 01

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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 16

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Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Howard Hughes, Will Hays, and California Governor Frank Merriam at the luncheon in the Biltmore Hotel, 1938 August 01

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Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 16

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