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Architectural drawing of residential home in Boulder City, Nevada, preliminary elevation, September 19, 1962

Date

1962-09-19

Description

Preliminary drawing of front exterior elevation of a ranch-style residential home in Boulder City, Nevada.

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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Leon Hughes, son of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes, in front of the "old motel" located on the Pahrump Ranch, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. Hughes believes the motel was constructed around 1920 by the Pahrump Valley Company, under the ownership of Isodore Dockweiler, to house Dockweiler and his associates when they visited the ranch. It featured a screened porch, one bathroom, running water, a flush toilet, a kitchen, and four bedrooms. The "motel" burned down in the early 1940s.

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Geologic map of the northeast quarter of the Bullfrog 15-minute quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 1990

Date

1990

Description

58 x 46 cm., on sheet 87 x 102 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 40 feet." "Base from U.S. Geological Survey 1:62,500. 1954." "Geology mapped in 1985 and 1988." Includes text, bibliography, 4 col. cross sections, and location and index maps. "Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Atomic Commission." Original publisher: U. S. Geological Survey, Series: Miscellaneous investigations series, map I, Scale: 1:24 000.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes, standing by the XF-11, April 3, 1947

Date

1947-04-03

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES READY FOR TAKE-OFF IN SECOND XF-11 FLIGHT. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, recovered from injuries following crash last July 7, is shown here just before he test-piloted today a duplicate of the plane in which he nearly lost his life. He designed and built the plane, designated XF-11, and one of the world's fastest photo-reconnaissance ships, for the Army Air Forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."

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