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Postcard of Ye Kings Rest Auto Court, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1936-1938

Date

1936 to 1938

Description

A postcard of Ye Kings Rest Auto Court, auto court meaning motel. Inside, they have refrigerated air conditioning.

Image

Aerial photograph of Boulder City (Nev.), circa 1933

Date

1932 to 1934

Description

Aerial view of Boulder City at its "beginning" (Credit: W.A. Davis. He says "Taken from top of ridge near Railroad Pass. City is completed: water tower, school, railroad, Reclamation Building.")

Image

Photograph of a document for the Boulder City 31ers, Image 1, Boulder City (Nev.), April 11, 1987

Date

1987-04-11

Description

The image of a letter from the Boulder City 31ers Club to the members regarding the 31st annual reunion on April 11, 1987.

Text

Photograph of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, July 14, 1938

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes and his crew being surrounded by crowds as they exit the Lockheed 14 aircraft after finishing the Around the World flight at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes (with hat) as he arrived in New York after completing a round the world flight is shown with Grover Whalen (left) members of his crew and Mayor La Guardia (right front) 7-14-38 (Press Association)."

Image

Photograph of a crowd surrounding Howard Hughes' plane, Los Angeles, August 02, 1938

Date

1938-08-02

Description

Typed onto a piece of paper given with the image: "As Los Angeles Welcomed Howard Hughes Los Angeles, Cal. -- The crowd gathered around the world-circling plane of Howard Hughes in the hangar at the Grand Central Air Terminal as Hughes and his companions on his record-breaking world flight alighted from the plane to receive the welcome home of Southern California. Hughes put his plane down at the airport and taxied it into the hangar all before alighting with his companions. Credit Line (ACME) 8/2/38 NY."

Image

Photograph of a document for the Boulder City 31ers, Image 2, Boulder City (Nev.), April 11, 1987

Date

1987-04-11

Description

The image of the back of the letter from the Boulder City 31ers Club to the members regarding the 31st annual reunion on April 11, 1987.

Text

Letter including ad for the Las Vegas Review-Journal from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to A. E. Cahlan (Las Vegas), March 25, 1938

Date

1938-03-25

Archival Collection

Description

Text of a notice to be printed in the Las Vegas Review-Journal announcing a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for damage to the cover to the Big Spring.

Text

George Francis Robert Bell, age one month on the baby scales, probably 1938 July

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Walking Box Ranch Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00346
Collection Name: Walking Box Ranch Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component