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Film negative showing a boat on Lake Mead, January 1938

Date

1938-01

Archival Collection

Description

A shot of a boat on Lake Mead; Jack Buecrud, aqua plane rider, is possibly on board.

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Photograph of Searchlight School, Clark County, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938

Description

Black and white photo of Searchlight School, Clark County.

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Photograph of Goodsprings School, Clark County, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938

Description

Black and white photo of Goodsprings School (Clark County). (Original of # 0214 0035)

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Photograph of Carp School, Lincoln County, Nevada, circa 1938

Date

1938

Description

Black and white photo of Carp School (Lincoln County).

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

Date

1938-07-14

Description

The black and white view of men assembling a truck loaded with old telephone booths for Howard Hughes arrival in New York. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Telephone company "goes to town" for Hughes' arrival, New York City -- Something had to be done to take care of the thousands of potential telephone users who crowded Floyd Bennett Field, July 14th, for the arrival of Howard Hughes and his daring crew on their dash Around the World, so the New York Telephone Company, well aware of the fact that the few phones at the field couldn't possibly accommodate, the officials, police, and spectators, "went to town" with a truck loaded with old telephone booths. A line was quickly strung and the phones in the booths on the truck were plugged in. The business was rushing and the phone company was well rewarded for its enterprise. Credit Line (ACME) 7/14/38."

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Photograph of Elbert Edwards picking figs in St. Thomas, Nevada, June, 1938

Date

1938-06

Description

Elbert Edwards picks figs from an orchard in St. Thomas, Nevada, while standing in the rising waters of Lake Mead.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Elbert Edwards picking figs from an orchard in St. Thomas, Nevada as the rising waters of Lake Mead cover the town. (ca. 1938-39)"

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Frank Hawkins city council candidacy rally, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 1 of 1), image 15

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series II. Public Events

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Boulder City: photographic print

Date

1930 (year uncertain) to 1933 (year uncertain)

Description

A view of Boulder City in the early 1930s.

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Sales material for the Granada model home in the El Encanto development, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1967-1969

Date

1967 to 1969

Description

Sales material from the late 1960s for model no. 15 A residential home, called "The Granada," in the El Encanto development, Las Vegas, Nevada. One side has an illustration of the front exterior elevation, a floor plan, and a list of features. The other side shows two alternate exterior elevation illustrations (15A-3-L and 15A-1-R). The price is handwritten. The development is located between Harmon and Tropicana Avenues (north and south) and Sandhill Rd. (west) and S. Lamb Blvd. (east).
Site Name: El Encanto (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Architecture Period: Mid-Century Modernist

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