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Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1932-1940

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Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1933-1939

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1942-1949

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1942-1949

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1942-1949

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Downtown Boulder City and the Nevada Highway, approximately 1930-1940

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00100
Collection Name: L. F. Manis Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 15

Archival Component

Slide of Petroglyphs on a rock, Boulder City, Nevada, circa 2000s

Date

Unknown year in the decade of the 2000s (year approximate)

Description

Petroglyphs in the Boulder City Dry Fall Area. The exact location is unknown, but the location is possibly in Keyhole Canyon. Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often associated with prehistoric peoples. The word comes from the Greek words petro-, theme of the word "petra" meaning "stone", and glyphein meaning "to carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. The term petroglyph should not be confused with petrograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face. Both types of image belong to the wider and more general category of rock art or parietal art. Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders over the ground, are also quite different. Inukshuks are also uni

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Photograph of Howard Hughes supervising construction of the D-2, Culver City, California, 1943

Date

1943

Description

Howard Hughes (in white shirt) supervises construction of the Hughes D-2 at the Hughes Aircraft Company. in Culver City, California. The D-2 was the prototype of the XF-11.

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