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Photograph of a Boulder Pack Train, Boulder City, Nevada circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

Black and white photograph of a Boulder Pack Train; Sign reads "Commercial & Pleasure, Places of interest. Fossil Beds. River Beds. Dam Site. Mountain Tops. Reasonable Rates".

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Photograph of New York Tonopah Mine, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

unspecified year in 190X

Description

Photograph of New York Tonopah Mine, Tonopah (Nev.), early 1900s

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and his crew at a parade, New York, July 15, 1938

Date

1938-07-15

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Gen. view parade: As globe fliers braved Broadway blizzard, New York. Although they didn't encounter a single snowflake on their roaring dash across Siberia, Howard Hughes and his four-man crew met a regular blizzard (of Broadway ticker tape) today as New York paid them homage as only New York know how. This is a view of the scene as the triumphal procession proceeded from the Battery to City Call. In the car are (left to right) Grover Whalen, President of the New York World's Fair, Howard Hughes and Al Lodwick, his press representative. (w) 7-15-38.30."

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Photograph of the XF-11 as it is about to take off for its first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Transcribed from attachment to photo: "NEW LONG-RANGE PLANE ANNOUNCED CULVER CITY, CALIF., The FX-11 took off today on its first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photographic planes, it was designed and built by Howard Hughes in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. It has a wing spread of 101 feet, 4 inches, and is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Army officials said it can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour and has a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947."

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Cember, H. 1983. Introduction to Health Physics. 2nd Edition. New York, New York: Pergamon Press, 1983

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00603
Collection Name: Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 30

Archival Component

Excalibur hotel and casino reflected in New York New York reflecting pond, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016 November 08

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00394
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Excalibur hotel and casino reflected in New York New York reflecting pond, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016 November 08

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00394
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Las Vegas Community Founder Awards at the New York New York Hotel and Casino: photographic prints, 2003 May 08

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box 042

Archival Component

Slide of the Visitors Bureau in Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1930s to 1940s

Date

1936 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

An exterior view of the Visitors Bureau.

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Campus of the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1924 to 1926

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.C. Hooper Family. On the far right is the Domestic Science building; next to it stands the older girls' dormitory.

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