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Boulder City housing developments: photographic prints

Date

1978

Description

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Boulder City housing developments, 1978.

Image

Lost City photograph album

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Nevada Division of State Parks Records
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Collection Number: MS-00136
Collection Name: Nevada Division of State Parks Records
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Construction of Boulder City, Nevada

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Ray Cutright Collection of Winthrop A. Davis Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00123
Collection Name: Ray Cutright Collection of Winthrop A. Davis Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

View of Boulder City, Nevada, looking south: photograhic print

Date

1950 (year uncertain; year approximate) to 1955 (year uncertain; year approximate)

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Aerial View of Boulder City, Nevada, looking south. 1950-55(?).

Image

View of Boulder City, Nevada looking northeast: photographic print

Date

1950 (year uncertain; year approximate) to 1955 (year uncertain; year approximate)

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Aerial View of Boulder City, Nevada, looking northeast. 1950-55 (?).

Image

View of Boulder City, Nevada looking northeast: photographic print

Date

1950 (year uncertain; year approximate) to 1955 (year uncertain; year approximate)

Description

From the Morgan Sweeney Photograph Collection (PH-00228). Aerial View of Boulder City, Nevada, looking northeast. 1950-55(?).

Image

Photograph of the XF-11 as it is about to take off for its first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947

Date

1947

Description

Transcribed from attachment to photo: "NEW LONG-RANGE PLANE ANNOUNCED CULVER CITY, CALIF., The FX-11 took off today on its first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photographic planes, it was designed and built by Howard Hughes in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. It has a wing spread of 101 feet, 4 inches, and is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Army officials said it can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour and has a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947."

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Midway City/Pittman, Nevada

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Henderson Public Library Photograph Collection on Henderson, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00254
Collection Name: Henderson Public Library Photograph Collection on Henderson, Nevada
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Film transparency of Boulder City, Nevada, circa 1931-1936

Date

1931 to 1936

Archival Collection

Description

An image of Arizona Street in Boulder City. From this view point, may different city shops are visible, such as the Hoover Dam Visitors Bureau (left) and the Nava-Hopi Trading Post (right).

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