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Boulder City housing developments: photographic prints, image 010
Description
Hoover Dam and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Boulder City housing developments, 1978.
Boulder City housing developments: photographic prints, image 011
Description
Hoover Dam and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Boulder City housing developments, 1978.
Film transparency of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-circa 1940s
Date
1931 (year uncertain; year approximate) to Unknown year in the decade of the 1940s
Archival Collection
Description
An image of Arizona Street (pointing northeast) in Boulder City. From this view point, may different city shops are visible, such as a Shell gas station, the Visitors Bureau, and the Nava-Hopi Trading Post, as well as a sign directing visitors to the nearby Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam Visitors Bureau was originally known as the Boulder Dam Tourist Service Bureau, as the dam's name officially changed in 1947.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947
Date
1947-05-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hughes Pilots Radar-Equipped Plane Culver City, Calif. -- First passenger plane equipped with radar is flown in demonstration May 1st by Howard Hughes (left) and co-pilot R.C. Loomis over Culver City. Pilots using this equipment will be warned of approaching obstacles by lights flashing on radar panel. Two lights (lefts) with 2,000-foot range, are used to guarantee clearance over mountains; two lights (right) with 500-foot range, are a safety device for approaches and landings. Either set of lights warns against approaching aircraft. Trans-World Airline plans to install radar on its passenger planes. Credit (ACME) 5-3-47."
Image
Panoramic photograph of downtown Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1933 - late 1930s
Date
1933 to 1939
Archival Collection
Description
View of downtown Boulder City seen from Government Park (later Wilbur Square Park). Well known buildings can be seen from this angle, including St. Andrew's Catholic Church (left), City Hall (left, center), the Boulder Theater building that contained the Boulder Dam Service Bureau (right, center), and the Boulder Dam Hotel (right).
Image
Photographs of casino exteriors: Hilton, Paris, Flamingo Hilton, Caesars Palace, Stratosphere, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Frontier Hotel, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 1 of 1)
Date
1990 to 1999
Archival Collection
Description
Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work
Image
City of Las Vegas; General Plan - Summary Edition by Las Vegas City Council, approximately 1960 to 1980
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Clark County Planning Commission Research Library Collection
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Collection Number: MS-01027
Collection Name: Clark County Planning Commission Research Library Collection
Box/Folder: Box 87
Collection Name: Clark County Planning Commission Research Library Collection
Box/Folder: Box 87
Archival Component