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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles), June 18, 1938
Date
1938-06-18
Archival Collection
Description
Bracken requesting that a contract be prepared for work on increasing the flow of Well No. 2.
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Photograph of workmen completing the final arrangements for the test of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
The interior of the 219-foot long hull of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, on the day of the craft's initial water taxi tests. The picture was taken from the center section of the 400,000 pound aircraft. Workmen were completing the final arrangements for the test in the background.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Mr. Will Wittwer (Las Vegas Ranch), May 5, 1938
Date
1938-05-05
Archival Collection
Description
Responding to complaints that water from a spring located on the Las Vegas ranch property had been contaminated, directions were given to repair and protect the spring.
Text
Photograph of a section of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat being moved to the Los Angeles Harbor, June 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
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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Film transparency of people standing in tunnel, Hoover Dam, December 27, 1938
Date
1938-12-27
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of Hoover Dam with the following printed description: "View of 50-foot diameter tunnel below Arizona Tunnel Plug outlet works with Stoney Gate at end of tunnel lowered." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s
Date
1940 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."
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Photograph of a couple standing next to a car on a flooded road, St. Thomas, 1938
Date
1938
Archival Collection
Description
A man and woman standing near a car on a road that is being covered by the waters of Lake Mead
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Photograph of museum basement stairway, Boulder City (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
Basement room of Boulder Dam Museum, showing a stairway and basement door in the southwest corner of the room.
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Photograph of museum basement corner, Boulder City (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
Basement museum room, looking north, showing north corner of room. Boxes of materials are seen near the entrance doorway as light shines in from the windows.
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Photograph of museum basement corner, Boulder City, (Nev.), January 10, 1938
Date
1938-01-10
Archival Collection
Description
East corner of basement in Boulder City Museum.
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