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Photograph of an outhouse over an irrigation ditch in Corn Creek, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Archival Collection

Description

An outhouse located over an irrigation ditch in Corn Creek, Nevada

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: Outhouse over irrigation ditch

Image

Completed workshop and tack room with a bunkhouse in right foreground built the previous year, 1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Robert Worts Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00007
Collection Name: Robert Worts Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Andre's store and Silver Diner Cafe, Beatty, Nevada: photographic print, approximately 1938

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Joe Andre Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00124
Collection Name: Joe Andre Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01

Archival Component

Charles Pratt's diary from time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1936 to 1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Elizabeth and Charles Pratt Personal Papers
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Collection Number: MS-01063
Collection Name: Elizabeth and Charles Pratt Personal Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02

Archival Component

Photograph of a crowd of people awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes, New York, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of members of the Aeronautical Association awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes and his Lockheed 12 aircraft at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Official timers of Aeronautical Association compare their precision chronometers as Lockheed-14 roars overhead, marking end of Round-the-World flight at Floyd Bennett Airport." Typed onto a second piece of paper also attached to the image: "Official timers of the Aeronautical Association shown at Floyd Bennett Field comparing their precision chronometers as Howard Hughes' plane roared overhead marking the end of his Flight Around The World. July 1938."

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew being surrounded by crowds as they exit the Lockheed 14 aircraft after finishing the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes (with hat) as he arrived in New York after completing a round the world flight is shown with Grover Whalen (left) members of his crew and Mayor La Guardia (right front) 7-14-38 (Press Association)."

Image

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Roscoe Moss (Los Angeles), June 10, 1938

Date

1938-06-10

Archival Collection

Description

Well No. 2 had dropped production from 2.5 million gallons a day to 700,000 gallons, and Bracken discussed possible remedies.

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