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Film transparency of Boulder City Visitors Bureau, Boulder City, Nevada, 1969

Date

1969

Archival Collection

Description

An image of a street scene in Boulder City, Nevada. Cars are parked at the cross section of Nevada Way (going north to south) and Arizona Street (going east to west). Also visible is the Visitors Bureau. Signs mounted atop the building advertise other goods and services that the bureau provides, such as a pharmacy and a bank.

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Photograph of advancing waters of Lake Mead through St. Thomas, 1938

Date

1938-06

Description

A view of the advancing waters of Lake Mead through St. Thomas.

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Photograph of Lake Mead submerging the town of St. Thomas, June 1938

Date

1938-06

Archival Collection

Description

An adobe home in St. Thomas surrounded by water.

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Photograph of a sleeping shed and reservoir in Corn Creek, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Archival Collection

Description

Reservoir and sleeping sled in Corn Creek, Nevada

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "Resevoir (sic) and sleeping shed"

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Edmund T. Allen, Seattle, Washington, July 7, 1938

Date

1938-07-07

Description

Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes tests the Hughes plane. Seattle--Howard Hughes (right), millionaire aviation enthusiast and record holder, shown with Edmund T. Allen, Boeing test engineer, before they made a recent test flight in a Boeing-built Stratoliner. The huge machine was equipped with extra fuel tanks for the test. Hughes did not reveal the reasons for his interest in the four-motored, 30 passenger plane, designed for substratosphere flight."

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Photograph of Tamarisk trees sticking out of the water in St. Thomas, Nevada, circa June, 1938

Date

1938 (year approximate)

Description

The tops of tamerisk trees show above the water line of Lake Mead at St. Thomas, Nevada.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "What was once the main throughfare and entrance to the prosperous little Mormon town of St. Thomas now shows only the tops of the tamarix (sic) trees which lined its irrigation ditches. (phto by E. Edwards)"

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Photograph of of the Culver City Boy Scouts in Boulder City, Nevada, 1935

Date

1935

Archival Collection

Description

An image of the Culver City Boy Scouts with Police Chief Truschel in Boulder City. Transcribed from bottom border of image: "Copr. 1935, Paramount Productions, Inc. Permission granted for Newspaper and Magazine reproductions. (Made in U.S.A.)."

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. C. Mann (Las Vegas) regarding Las Vegas water supply, June 9, 1938

Date

1938-06-09

Archival Collection

Description

Las Vegas was just entering the hottest part of the year and well No. 1 had dropped off production considerably.

Text

"Photographic Record of Storm Damage to Main Line and Branches" by the Union Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Division photograph album, 1938

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Series

Scope and Contents

Materials depict the Union Pacific Railroad Company's railroad tracks that had been damaged during floods in February and March of 1938 in Southern California and Southern Nevada, including by the Los Angeles Flood of 1938. The photographs primarily depict washed out tracks, damaged bridges, and debris.

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00043
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photograph of the arrival of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14, New York, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of motorcycle police awaiting the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Motorcycle police on hand for Hughes' landing, New York city -- Motorcycle policemen lined up on Floyd Bennett Field, July 14th, to help keep in check the crowd of 30,000 persons that gathered to greet Howard Hughes and his heroic crew as they landed their giant Lockheed plain after their record-smashing flight around the world. Credit Line (ACME). 7/14/38."

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