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Film transparency of Boulder City Visitors Bureau, Boulder City, Nevada, 1969

Date

1969

Archival Collection

Description

An image of the Visitors Bureau located on Arizona Street in Boulder City at night. Text across the white sign mounted on the front of the building: "Free Movies Building Of The Dam."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes leaving the Northrop Gamma Racer, Newark, New Jersey, January 13, 1936

Date

1936-01-13

Description

Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.

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Officials present for Boulder City's incorporation ceremony in Boulder City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1964-03-16

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). L-R: unidentified; Art Olson, Clark County Commissioner; Harold Corbin, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Boulder City Manager; Dr. Henry J. Reining, Dean of the College of Administration, USC at Los Angeles; Albert Franklin, Boulder City Councilman; Bob Broadbent, Boulder City Mayor; Dr. Thomas S. White, Boulder City Councilman; Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada; William Byrne, Henderson, Nevada mayor; Morgan J. Sweeney, Boulder City Councilman; Arleigh West, Acting Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation at Boulder City; Joe Manix, Boulder City Councilman; N.E. Broadbent, Mayor of Ely, Nevada; B. Mahlon Brown, Nevada state senator; Harley Harmon, Clark County Commission Chairman; Jake Dieleman, Nevada state assemblyman.

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Centennial Stories: Examining Our Past, "L.V. Strip Howard Hughes Era," CCTV-4 Clark County TV, 2009

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Additional information from donor: Moderated by Mark Hall-Patton. Paul Winn, Geoff Schumacher, and Burton Cohen reflect on the impact Howard Hughes had on Las Vegas. Additional contribution by Bob Stoldal in video segments.

Archival Collection

Scott Rayer Collection of Television Programs about Las Vegas, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01130
Collection Name: Scott Rayer Collection of Television Programs about Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Aerial photograph of Hughes' Hercules flying boat aircraft, Los Angeles (Calif.), July 16, 1947

Date

1947-07-16

Description

Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken on July 16, 1947.

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Slide of Archie C. Grant Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, circa late 1970s-1980s

Date

1978 to 1989

Description

Exterior of Archie C. Grant Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Image

Photograph of Howard Hughes giving a news conference next to his DC-3, New York, 1947

Date

1947-04

Description

Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.

Image

Las Vegas Valley as seen from the City View Trail above Sun City MacDonald Ranch, Henderson, Nevada

Date

2016-09-14

Description

Images of the Las Vegas Valley as seen from City View Trail above the Sun City MacDonald Ranch neighborhood of Henderson, Nevada.

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Las Vegas Valley as seen from the City View Trail above Sun City MacDonald Ranch, Henderson, Nevada

Date

2016-09-14

Description

Images of the Las Vegas Valley as seen from City View Trail above the Sun City MacDonald Ranch neighborhood of Henderson, Nevada.

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Silver City Casino: postcard

Date

1989

Description

Silver City Casino - Las Vegas. (1989)

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