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Photographs of March to Los Angeles: City Hall, Culinary Union, Los Angeles (Calif.), 1992 (folder 2 of 2)
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Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.B. Other Demonstrations and Strikes
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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel
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Hughes Aircraft Company Weapons System Publications
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The Hughes Aircraft Company Weapons System Publications (approximately 1965-2011) contain brochures, booklets, photographs, and illustrations of the AWG-9/Phoenix Air Superiority Weapon Control System developed by Hughes Aircraft Company Aerospace Systems Division based in California. The collection contains photographs of various aircraft, as well as a Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track (SNORT) test at the Naval Ordnance Test Station near China Lake, California.
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Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1935-1945
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Materials contain photographs of the Hughes H-1 Racer aircraft from 1935 to 1945. 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 Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1936
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1938
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and a crowd with the Hughes XH-17, October 23, 1952
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1937
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Mark Hall-Patton oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mark Hall-Patton conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 25, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Hall-Patton discusses coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1993, creating the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum, and becoming a director for Clark County Museums in 2008, just when the economic downturn caused large layoffs and a drop in visitor numbers. He also talks about how joining the television show
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March to Los Angeles: City Hall, Culinary Union, Los Angeles (Calif.), 1992 (folder 1 of 2), image 10
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