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Portrait of Howard J. Mitchell: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1985 (year approximate)

Description

From the Southern Nevada Educators Photograph Collection (PH-00185).

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Letter from H. H. Larson (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 26, 1938

Date

1938-08-26

Archival Collection

Description

Larson asking Bracken if it was still the policy of the company to not sell water to an institution like the Railroad Pass Casino.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others studying Flying Boat plans, circa mid 1940s

Date

1942 to 1947

Description

Howard Hughes (center) studying diagrams for the Flying Boat with two unidentified men.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and crew member inside of the HK-1 Flying Boat, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Howard Hughes inspecting the equipment on the flight deck inside of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, which he designed and built. The man pictured behind Hughes is possibly Earl Martyn, Hughes' flight engineer. The Flying Boat was near completion and was located on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.

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Aerial photograph of Saint Thomas, Nevada, being covered by Lake Mead, June 1938

Date

1938-06

Description

Aerial view of St. Thomas, Nevada, being covered by Lake Mead. Stamped on back of photo: Photograph by Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder Canyon Project, Boulder City, Nevada

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Photograph of Union Pacific Railroad crews removing tracks at the St. Thomas line, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Union Pacific Railroad crews taking up the St. Thomas line in advance of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Taking up track, advancing waters of Lake Mead in background"

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Photograph of the top of the St. Thomas, Nevada school, Lake Mead, circa June, 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

The remains of the St. Thomas school building about to disappear under the waters of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "The last of a once modern high school building (St. Thomas) about to disappear forever."

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Howard Cannon with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: photographic print

Date

1964 (year approximate) to 1982 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Howard Cannon, Glen Reese, and another man in his Washington, D.C. office: photographic print

Date

1982-03

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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