View of Boulder City, Nevada, showing mostly residential neighborhoods, as well as the Bureau of Reclamation Administration Building (at center left), the Boulder Theatre building on Arizona Street (light-colored building with arches, to the right of the center),and businesses on the Nevada Highway.
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: "Telling the world about Hughes' record flight. New York City-- Radio men setting up their microphones in front of the crew of Howard Hughes great Lockheed plane so that Hughes and his heroic crew could send a few words of greeting to the world over the air waves after their record smashing flight around the world. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38 (SS)"
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes in New York after making a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a two-ounce oxygen mask."
Black and white image of three employees from the Stenographic Office at the Bureau of Reclamation with the following printed description: "Left to right: Hannah Houn, Stenographer; Cecile M. Dotson, Mails and File Clerk; Rose V. Crippa, Stenographer."
Materials contain photographs of Boulder City, Nevada from 1932 to 1952, including photographs of schools, children, construction projects, and architectural sketches.