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County agent project progress report, Home water supplies - domestic water improvement and water facilities, November 1, 1938

Date

1938-11-01

Description

Discussion of the progress on domestic water for Bunkerville and Mesquite, Nevada. Prospects were good for the Work Projects Administration to install a tank and pipeline. PROJECT NUMBER: State Office # M-282, Clark County # M-22

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Photograph of the Lost City site and Lake Mead, near Overton, Nevada, spring 1938

Date

1938

Description

Long shot of the Lost City site (Pueblo Grande de Nevada), near Overton, Nevada, with the northwest arm of Lake Mead in the distance. The area is near the ruins of St. Thomas, Nevada, another nearby extinct town, submerged by Lake Mead.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and the XF-11, Culver City, California, July 7, 1946

Date

1946-07-07

Description

Transcribed from back of photo: "Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the new XF-11 reconnaissance plane which he designed and built in conjuntion with Air Material Command engineers. He is preparing for its first flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photo planes, it can attain a speed of over 400 miles per hour."

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James Webb, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Howard Cannon: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Webb traveled to Nevada to inspect progress made in the development of a nuclear rocket engine at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station.

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Senators Stephen Young and Howard Cannon inspect an F-27 Fairchild aircraft at the World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1959-04-12 (approximate) to 1959-04-19 (approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Senators Stephen Young and Howard Cannon inspect supersonic interceptor aircrafts at the World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1959-04-12 (approximate) to 1959-04-19 (approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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President John F. Kennedy's visit to Las Vegas, Nevada with Howard Cannon in the background: photographic print

Date

1963-09

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the Flying Boat, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947

Date

1947-11-01

Description

Howard Hughes at the controls of his Flying Boat. Los Angeles Harbor is currenly known as Long Beach Harbor, California.

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Howard Cannon walking away from a United States Air Force F-105D aircraft: photographic print

Date

1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)

Description

From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)

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