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Fireplace at the foot of Diana's Punch Bowl, Nye County, Nevada: photographic print, 1938 April 17

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File

Archival Collection

Nevada Division of State Parks Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00105
Collection Name: Nevada Division of State Parks Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 03

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Photocopies of 1934-1938 Fred Alward and Harley A. Harmon connection newspaper clippings, approximately 2016

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Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 29

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Boulder Dam legislation outline and substitute draft for House of Representatives (H.R.) 6629 bill, 1938-1939

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File

Archival Collection

Colorado River Commission of Nevada Reference Library Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00427
Collection Name: Colorado River Commission of Nevada Reference Library Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19

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Singer Dick Bell in Chez Vous Ballroom, Upper Darby, Pennslyvania: photograph, approximately 1938 to 1939

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Archival Collection

Larry Fotine Music collection
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Collection Number: MS-01179
Collection Name: Larry Fotine Music collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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Las Vegas, Nevada - Joe Cardinal and Louis Pisetta gasoline pipe line crossing, 1937-1938

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File

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00397
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 30

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Jones, Florence Lee. The Junior Chamber Idea: Hits the West's Newest City, Trend, 1938 February

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File

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UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
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Collection Number: MS-00626
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 13

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Photograph of swimmers in a salt water hole near the junction of the Virgin and Colorado Rivers, before 1938

Date

open start to 1938

Description

Five unidentified men swimming in pool near the salt mines near the confluence of the Virgin and Colorado Rivers.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription and signature on back: "Salt water hole, 1-mile west of Jct. Virgin and Col. Rivers." Signed Merle Frehner

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Panoramic perspective maps of Hoover Dam and adjacent areas by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1931 to 1938

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File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
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Collection Number: MS-00955
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Boulder City, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Maps and Brochures
Box/Folder: Flat File 06

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Photograph of employee in Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

The Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering division. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

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Photograph of Tamarisk trees sticking out of the water in St. Thomas, Nevada, circa June, 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

The tops of tamerisk trees show above the water line of Lake Mead at St. Thomas, Nevada.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "What was once the main throughfare and entrance to the prosperous little Mormon town of St. Thomas now shows only the tops of the tamarix (sic) trees which lined its irrigation ditches. (phto by E. Edwards)"

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