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Raymond and Mary Brooks' first anniversary scrapbook: photographs of western United States and Mexico, including images of Eureka, Rhyolite, and Virginia City, Nevada and Lake Mead, 1938
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
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Collection Number: MS-01153
Collection Name: Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
Box/Folder: Box 11
Collection Name: Raymond Brooks Papers on Mining
Box/Folder: Box 11
Archival Component
The Gateway to Las Vegas from Boulder City, depicting the Union Pacific Railroad Depot, reproduction from approximately 1938 to 1945: photographic print and negative, 1982
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File
Archival Collection
Alicia Lawrence Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00149
Collection Name: Alicia Lawrence Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01, Box SH-023
Collection Name: Alicia Lawrence Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01, Box SH-023
Archival Component
City Ordinances, 1911 July 18 to 1933 March 31
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Las Vegas City Commission Records
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Collection Number: MS-00237
Collection Name: Las Vegas City Commission Records
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Collection Name: Las Vegas City Commission Records
Box/Folder: No Container 00
Archival Component
"Yankee Baseball Greats 1938" photograph, 1938
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16 (Restrictions apply)
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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
Archival Collection
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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