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Photograph of costumed children for the 4th of July, circa 1930s-1950s

Date

1930 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

An image of children dressed up in costumes, possibly for the 4th of July at City Hall in Boulder City, Nevada. Specifically within the front row, boys dressed reminiscently of America's Founding Fathers stand next to girls in patterned dresses. Some of the children can be seen holding American flags and wearing paper crowns.

Image

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

Image

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)"

Image

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.

Text

Howard Hughes and crew at a luncheon: Harry P. Connor, navigator of the Hughes plane; Grover Whalen; Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City; Thomas Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, radio engineer; and Edward Lund, flight engineer; also William Randolph Hearst Jr. of the Hearst publishing company, 1938 July 15

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 13

Archival Component

Willow Trees Morning Song: Book of Student Verse, Los Angeles Student Verse, photocopy, 1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Joanne de Longchamps Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00424
Collection Name: Joanne de Longchamps Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

"Word to the Wise," "Lovers," "Greek Maidens are Dancing," "Death," "Lullaby," Yearbook of Creative Writing, photocopy, 1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Joanne de Longchamps Papers
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00424
Collection Name: Joanne de Longchamps Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

From family members including Seymour Kimball Bradford and Nanelia Louvee Bradford Siegfried, 1901-1938

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nan Doughty Family Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00021
Collection Name: Nan Doughty Family Collection
Box/Folder: Box 10

Archival Component

"Object of Rotary from the Doctors Medical Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri": plaque, approximately 1938 to 1952

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Julius Jensen Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00640
Collection Name: Julius Jensen Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05

Archival Component

Arundel by Roberts, Kenneth. Readers' Union Limited

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01144
Collection Name: Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" Collection
Box/Folder: No Container 00

Archival Component