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Interview with Benjamin Clinton Diven, April 12, 2005
Date
2005-04-12
Archival Collection
Description
Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Manhattan Project
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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the XF-11, after his successful test flight, April 5, 1947
Date
1947-04-05
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."
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Photograph of Martha Vickers and Manuel Rojas fishing in Lake Mead, mid 1950s
Date
1953 to 1957
Archival Collection
Description
Actress Martha Vickers and her then husband, actor Manuel Rojas fishing at Lake Mead. The back of the ship reads, "Topper" and "Lake Mead."
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Photograph of a packtrain hauling hay bales, Goodsprings (Nev.), 1910
Date
1910
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of a packtrain hauling hay bales, Goodsprings (Nev.), 1910
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Photograph of a horse team and freight wagons on a dirt road in the desert, 1900-1925
Date
1900 to 1925
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of a horse team and freight wagons on a dirt road in the desert, 1900-1925
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Slide of sailors during an atomic test, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Sailors on a United States Navy vessel looking at the blast of light coming from an underwater atomic test.
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Slide of sailor during an atomic test, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Sailor on a United States Navy vessel using his cap to shield his eyes from the blast of light coming from an underwater atomic test.
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Slide of sailors during an atomic test, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Sailors on a United States Navy vessel looking at the blast of light coming from an underwater atomic test.
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