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Boulder City, Nevada Financial Reports and Budgets

Identifier

MS-00695

Abstract

Collection is comprised of annual budgets, financial statements, and auditor's reports dating from 1976 to 1989 created for the city of Boulder City, Nevada and adopted by the City Council.

Archival Collection

Photograph of town hall and movie theater, Beatty (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Patron provided the following comment: This was located in the 200 block of West Montgomery behind where the ambulance garage is now. Building originally was the Miner's Union Hall in Rhyolite. It was moved to Beatty in 1914.
Caption: The hall affording dances and movies.

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Photograph of Beatty (Nev.), 1937-1938

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

A view of the dirt road to Tonopah from Beatty. The Exchange Club is visible on the left. "Beatty, Nevada, Curtis Photo" is written and "Frashers Foto" is stamped at the bottom right on the photo.

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J. T. McWilliams and family, 1930-1938

Level of Description

Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographs of J. T. McWilliams and the McWilliams family from 1930 to 1938. McWilliams was a surveyor and civil engineer who founded the original Las Vegas townsite (McWilliams Town). He also owned a portion of Lee Canyon, which he donated to become a public park.

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed near Beatty, Nevada, 1938 March 03

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Charles Thomas-Perry Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00150
Collection Name: Charles Thomas-Perry Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 02

Archival Component

Mark Hall-Patton oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02810

Abstract

Oral history interview with Mark Hall-Patton conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 25, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Hall-Patton discusses coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1993, creating the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum, and becoming a director for Clark County Museums in 2008, just when the economic downturn caused large layoffs and a drop in visitor numbers. He also talks about how joining the television show Pawn Stars in 2009 significantly raised visitor numbers and increased visibility of museums all over the Las Vegas Valley.

Archival Collection

1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed: photographic prints

Date

1941-08-06

Description

On the photograph it reads, "March 3, 1938 - our 1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed near Beatty, Nevada."

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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white, skyline view of New York City with Lockheed 14 aircraft flying in the foreground. Typed onto paper included with the image: "New York- Howard Hughes' plane over New York after flight around the world. 7/14/38"

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Photograph of Richard Kirman, Nevada, circa 1935-1938

Date

1935 to 1938

Description

Nevada Governor Richard Kirman from 1935-1938.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes in France, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes speaking into a mike at Paris before leaving for Moscow on the second leg of his round the world flight 7-12-1938"

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