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Photograph of Cyril Wengert with his children, June 19, 1938

Date

1938-06-19

Archival Collection

Description

Cyril Wengert posing with his children for Father's Day. Depicted in the photograph, from left to right is Marilyn Wengert, Shirley Wengert, Ward Wengert, and Robert Wengert.

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Photograph of Joe Andre's restaurant and store, Beatty (Nev.), 1938

Date

1938

Archival Collection

Description

Black and white image of Joe Andre's restaurant and store. According to the original description, the house is old Jesse Christensen's home which Andre remodeled according to Lorraine Thomas Perry.

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Photograph of power plant, Hoover Dam, April 12, 1938

Date

1938-04-12

Description

Black and white image of the downstream face of Hoover Dam and its power plant at night, as seen from the lower portal road at the dam. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Hulsizer (Omaha, Neb.), July 16, 1940

Date

1940-07-16

Archival Collection

Description

Table showing gallons and percentage of water used by The Las Vegas Land & Water Co. in Las Vegas, and used and sold by the Union Pacific Railroad Co. in 1937, 1938, and 1939.

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Photograph of rock temple, Lake Mead, May 11, 1938

Date

1938-05-11

Description

Colorado River, Lake Mead. The Temple near Lake Mead.

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Photograph of aerial lakeside view of Hoover Dam, 1937-1938

Date

1937 to 1938

Description

A view of the lakeside of the Hoover Dam, rather than the inside where the machinery is.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes and a group of men, August 01, 1938

Date

1938-08-01

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes and his crew of globe girdlers (L-to-R) Thomas Thurlow, Ed Lund, Albert Lodwick, Hughes, Harry Connor and Dick Stoddart. 8-1-38. (Press Association)." Howard Hughes is standing third from the left.

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Photograph of men in a boat, Lake Mead, April 20, 1938

Date

1938-04-20

Description

Several individuals stand on a boat at Lake Mead. From left to right: Carl A. Lehnert, Chief Ranger of the Boulder Dam Recreational Area; 2. Dr. C.W. West, Chairman of Nevada State Parks; 3. Guy D. Edwards, Supervisor of Boulder Dam Recreational Area; 4. Robert H. Rose, Naturalist, U.S. Park Service.

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County agent project report, Erosion-flood control, April 1938

Date

1938-04

Description

Summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Cooperating. Project Number: State Office #172, Clark County #12.

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Photograph of Navy planes, Boulder City (Nev.), January, 1938

Date

1938-01

Description

Boulder City. More distant view of U.S. Navy planes which landed at the National Park Service.

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