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Photograph of Howard Hughes inside an unidentified plane, circa 1937

Date

1936 to 1938

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes sitting in an unidentified plane.

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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 airplane, circa late 1930s

Date

1938-06

Description

An exterior view of the Lockheed 14 airplane outside a hangar at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California.

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Rex Bell holding Rex Anthony Bell, Jr., as an infant: photographic print

Date

1934 (year approximate) to 1935 (year approximate)

Description

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute

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One of the first diesel trucks to haul cattle off the Fallini Ranch, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.C. Fallini Family (Twin Springs, Nevada). Prior to the introduction of trucks, it was necessary to drive the cattle to Tonopah, where they were placed on the railroad.

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Bautista Venner on the front porch of his home at the base of the Kawich Mountains, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.C. Fallini Family (Twin Springs, Nevada)

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Initiation night at the Elks' Hall, Goldfield, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

 From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.A. Bradshaw Family (Goldfield-Tonopah). Among those pictured are Ed Kitchen, Albert Bradshaw, Bill Barrow, A.N. Bradshaw, Dr. J.C. Cherry, John Koontz, John O’Leary, Doc Galvin, Leonard Traynor, and Mr. Sutherland.

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Front of a building in Warm Springs, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series III. Beatty, Nevada -- Subseries III.B. Lisle Family. A bar stood to the left of the building pictured here, and a school stood to the right, near the present site of the big, stone corral. Mrs. Wilson ran a boarding house in the largest building pictured here.

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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). In the center of the dredge the screw elevator can be seen. It brought the placer material from the bucket elevator on board the dredge where it was processed. It is said that it took 100 workers to assemble the dredge. The dredge could process between 500 and 1,000 tons of gravel per hour.

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Steve Brown, Marcus Fizaldi, and Steve Brown's uncle, Bob Lee, in front of Bob Lee's home in the Pahrump Valley, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1938

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.G. Brown Family (Tecopa-Pahrump)

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Two young women at 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. Beryl Hughes, daughter of Pahrump Ranch owner John R. Hughes; and Mabel Ishmael, daughter of well-known Nye County resident, George Ishmael (identified from left to right). Photo was taken when Beryl Hughes was 15 and Mabel Ishmael was 16. Beryl Hughes later became a model in Los Angeles.

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