From Harvey's Hotel and Casino Postcard Collection (PH-00367). View of Virginia Street and the Reno Arch in Reno, Nevada. The postcard is addressed to a Miss Martha Boya.
Materials contain photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1960 to 1979. The photographs primarily depict properties owned by Howard Hughes after he moved to Las Vegas in 1966, including the Desert Inn, the Silver Slipper, the Landmark Hotel, the Sands Hotel, and the Frontier Hotel. The photographs also include the Spring Mountain Ranch that Hughes purchased for his wife Jean Peters and aerial views of the Las Vegas Strip.
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00321 Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs Box/Folder: N/A
Nevada Test Site (Miscellaneous). 1928 Buick. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "In 1928, this Buick was an elegant automobile." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News January 24, 1964 p.5]]
58 x 46 cm., on sheet 87 x 91 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 20 feet." "Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission." "Geology mapped in 1962-63." Includes text, 2 col. cross sections, and 2 index maps. Original publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Series: Geologic quadrangle map GQ, Scale: 1:24 000.
Folder includes Citizens Ad Hoc Law School Committee notes by Janice S. Gould, "Final Report on Law Program (1967-68)", and correspondence and memos related to legal education at Nevada Southern University (later UNLV). From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Records (UA-00048).
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.A. Carver, Carver-Duhme, and Carver-Book Families (Smoky Valley)