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Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign
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The Bob McCaffery Collection on the Save the Hughes Flying Boat Campaign (1980-1983) documents efforts by activists to preserve the plane from destruction and its subsequent acquisition by the Aero Club of Southern California in 1980. The collection contains photographs and newspaper clippings about the Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat nicknamed the "Spruce Goose" from the 1980s.
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#69824: The Nevada System of Higher Education holds an open house in its new Southern Nevada headquarters July 30, 2014 in Las Vegas, 2014 July 30
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and a woman, circa late 1930s
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and a woman, circa late 1930s
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The first nuclear test ever conducted, the "Trinity" test in New Mexico: photographic print, 1945 July 16
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: U.S. Department of Energy Photograph Collection on the Nevada Test Site
Box/Folder: Folder 02
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Geraldine Kirk-Hughes oral history interview
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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
Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, D.C., November 08, 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, circa mid to late 1940s
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Buckley, Tom. A $160,000 gamble in the World Series of Poker, New York Times, 1974 July 26
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 12
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Photograph of Howard Hughes out for dinner, circa 1937
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