Search Results
Birdseye view of Las Vegas, Nevada looking towards Sunrise Mountain: photographic print
Date
1940 (year uncertain; year approximate) to 1969 (year uncertain; year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). "The wide dirt road is Charleston Blvd. Stretching east to Sunrise Mountain. The subdivision in the center of the photograph is Carol Lombard's "Huntridge" just after the last homes were built.
Image
Photograph of tunnel outlets, Hoover Dam, circa 1940-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Color image of Hoover Dam looking upstream and showing the white water of the Colorado River below the spillway tunnel outlets. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
Image
Photograph of flood damage recovery work on Nelson's Landing, September 1974
Date
1974-09-01
Archival Collection
Description
Recovery operations at Nelson's Landing on the Colorado River after the 14 September 1974 Flood.
Transcribed Notes: Notes from photo sleeve: Nelson's Landing after the September 14, 1974 flood: salvage/recovery operations
Image
Photograph of flood damage recovery work on Nelson's Landing, circa September 1974
Date
1974-09-01
Archival Collection
Description
Recovery operations at Nelson's Landing on the Colorado River after the 14 September 1974 Flood.
Transcribed Notes: Notes from photo sleeve: Nelson's Landing after the September 14, 1974 flood: salvage/recovery operations
Image
Interview with Stephen Craig Ronshaugen, November 26, 2004
Date
2004-11-26
Archival Collection
Description
Narrator affiliation: Special Assistant Manager, U.S. Department of Energy
Text
Color view of Sunrise Center and Montgomery Wards department store construction site signs located at Charleston and Fremont Street. The building was converted to a Lowe's after Wards closed in. Frenchman mountain (aka Sunrise Mountain) is visible in the background.
Date
1950 to 1969
Description
Arrangement note: Series V. Glass slidesSite address: E Charleston Blvd and Fremont St
Image
Color view of the construction site sign for the Parkway Mall, located at Maryland Parkway between Desert Inn Road and Twain Avenue. This would eventually be renamed The Boulevard Mall.
Date
1950 to 1969
Description
Arrangement note: Series V. Glass slidesSite name: Boulevard Mall (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Site address: Maryland Pkwy
Image
Color view of the city and a drawing of the new Bank of Nevada Prestige Office building located at the South West corner of 3rd Street and Bridger Avenue. The Famous Pioneer is visible in the background.
Date
1950 to 1969
Description
Arrangement note: Series V. Glass slides
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes' plane, Los Angeles, August 02, 1938
Date
1938-08-02
Archival Collection
Description
Typed onto a piece of paper given with the image: "Hughes' Plane Over Los Angeles, Cal. -- The world-girdling plane of Howard Hughes pictured from an American Airlines plane as it flew over Los Angeles as Hughes and four companions on the record-breaking flight arrive at Los Angeles for the ovation accorded them by proud Southern Californians. The Los Angeles City Hall is in the background. Credit Line (ACME) 8/2/38 NY
Image
Photograph of the fuselage of Hughes' Flying Boat being moved to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
Image