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Trans World Airline plane equipped with radar that Howard Hughes is flying in Culver City, California, 1947 May 03
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 24
Archival Component
Hughes Tool Company financing negotiations with City Bank Farmers Trust, 1930 December 23 to 1931 April 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 423 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes visiting the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
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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
Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1936
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes and employees at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Image
Architectural drawing of residential home in Boulder City, Nevada, preliminary elevation, September 19, 1962
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Archival Collection
Description
Preliminary drawing of front exterior elevation of a ranch-style residential home in Boulder City, Nevada.
Architecture Period: Mid-Century ModernistImage
Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1937
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Archival Collection
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Bill Hughes Photographs
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Abstract
The Bill Hughes Photographs (approximately 1980-2012) contains negatives, slides, prints, proofs, and born digital images created by local photographer and photojournalist Bill Hughes for publications including Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Business Press, Las Vegas Weekly, as well as commercial clients. A portion of prints in the collection consist of modeling photographs Hughes took as part of his business. The digital images represent a variety of clients, and feature local bands, DJs, and performers in nightclubs and bars on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas. Also included in digital files are portraits, artistic photographs and self-portraits, and material used for Las Vegas Weekly, CityLife, and Business Press.
Archival Collection