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Photograph of the ribbon cutting ceremony for North Las Vegas City Hall, circa 1966

Date

1905-05-19

Description

From left to right: a picture of John Walsh, Joe Cunningham, Dante Vespignani, Milt Wiers, John Fadgen, Mayor William Taylor (light jacket), Councilman Jack Petitti (second from right), Pete Green, Joe Mindyas, and James Johnson at a ribbon cutting ceremony in North Las Vegas City Hall.

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Photograph of Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes and Jack Dempsey, New York City, June 1964

Date

1964-06

Description

The Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes pose with Jack Dempsey in his restaurant in New York City, New York.

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Photograph of a contract signing at City Hall, Las Vegas (Nev.), August 25, 1967

Date

1967-08-25

Archival Collection

Description

Signing of contracts for Lake Mead water pipeline at the Las Vegas City Hall. Sitting in the top row from left to right: unidentified individual, Arleigh West, Bureu of Reclamation, Oran Gragson, Mayor of Las Vegas, Paul Laxalt, Governor of Nevada, Robert Griffith, Chairman Colorado River Commission, William Taylor, Mayor of North Las Vegas, Leonard Fayle, President of Las Vegas Valley Water District, Mr. Hampton, Mayor of Henderson, Robert Broadbent, Mayor of Boulder City. Site Name: Clark County Court House, Las Vegas (Nev.)

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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947

Date

1947-05-03

Description

Description given with photo: "Radar Installed on Passenger Planes Culver City, Calif. -- Radar safety control system (cabinet, left, center) for passenger planes, demonstrated by Howard Hughes in a trans-world airline plane, at Culver City, May 1st. Radar, with 500 and 2,000 foot warning signals, tells the pilot when he is approaching obstacles. Equipment is being installed in planes flying routes from San Francisco eastward to Shanghai. Credit (ACME) 5/3/47."

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Postcard of Boulder City, Nevada, between December 15, 1933 and June, 1934

Date

1933 to 1934

Archival Collection

Description

Panoramic view of houses from the water tank in Boulder City.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in New York, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

A view of Howard Hughes in the backseat of a car, after landing at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, New York, April, 1947

Date

1947-04

Description

Howard Hughes exiting an airplane in New York, flanked by two unidentified men.

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Photograph of the fuselage of the Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Culver City, California, 1946

Date

1946

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.

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Aerial photograph of Civic Center Drive and North Las Vegas City Hall, May 23, 1970

Date

1905-05-23

Description

An aerial view of the North Las Vegas City Hall and Civic Center Drive.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947

Date

1947-08-16

Description

Description given with photo: "Howard Hughes Is Asked About His XF-11 By Senator! Culver City, Calif. - Millionaire plane builder Howard Hughes, left, is asked about his controversial XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane, background, by Senator Harry Cain, right, Republican of Washington. Cain is member of the Senate War Investigating Committee, and inspected Hughes craft after the plane builder had test flown the ship. An earlier model of same design nearly cost Hughes his life when it crashed in Beverly Hill last winter. Note wind-blown hair on both Pilot Hughes and observer Cain. Photo by Felix Pagel. 8/16/47."

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