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Boulder City Reminder: newspaper, approximately 1938 September 26 to 1938 December 15
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Nevada Newspapers
Box/Folder: Box 03
Archival Component
Chart showing water consumption by month in Las Vegas in 1938, circa 1939
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Archival Collection
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1938 Las Vegas water consumption by month showing a daily average per month.
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten numbers on the sheet
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Howard Heckethorn oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Howard Heckethorn conducted by Richard Eitland on February 15, 1979 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Mr. Heckethorn describes going to school in the early days of Las Vegas, Nevada. He also talks about many notable teachers he had, as well as the development of the Las Vegas area. Heckethorn also discusses his arrival to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1930, and recalls the Old Mormon Fort, El Rancho, The Last Frontier, and the tourism that gambling brought to the city. Heckethorn discusses the 1960s, and the impact Howard Hughes had in the development of hotels and casinos.
Archival Collection
Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Howard Hughes, 1936
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of crowds at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 1938
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Archival Collection
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Paramount News headline, 1938 July 14
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 09
Archival Component
Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft, July 14, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Slide of Archie C. Grant Hall and Maude Frazier Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa 1980s
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Archival Collection
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Frazier Hall: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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