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Folder 01, LLB, 3, SCA Main Stacks, Collection Cabinets [Cabinet: 10, Drawer: C], PH--00282, U.S. Department of Energy Photograph Collection on the Nevada Test Site

Archival objects in this container:

  1. Diagrammatic map of Nevada showing the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and Nellis Air Force Range: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  2. Topographic road map of NTS: photographic print, 1982
  3. Mercury, the main base camp at the NTS: photographic print and photographic negative, approximately 1945 to 1982
  4. Radioactive waste management site at Frenchman Flat (area 5) at the NTS: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  5. Security guards check access badges at Gate 100, NTS: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  6. Industrial Design and Engineering Company (IDECO) 2500 rig used for drilling holes: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  7. Inside the Control Point at the NTS during preparations for a nuclear test: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  8. Signal cables laid out at a test location on Yucca Flats, the principal underground nuclear weapons testing area at the NTS: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  9. Final test preparations at the NTS: photographic print and photographic negative, approximately 1945 to 1982
  10. Line-of-sight pipes fabricated inside tunnels at the Rainier Mesa, Nevada: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  11. Hole drilling equipment at the NTS: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  12. Nuclear explosive and diagnostic canister for a test named "Handley" being lowered down at the Pahute Mesa in the northwestern corner of the NTS: photographic print, 1970 March
  13. IDECO 2500 rig used for drilling holes: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  14. Sedan Crater at the Nevada Test Site: photographic print, approximately 1962
  15. House disintegration during an explosion at the NTS: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  16. North end of Yucca Flat, including craters: photographic print, approximately 1945 to 1982
  17. Sedan Crater: photographic print, approximately 1962
  18. Operation Teapot, the "Met" shot, a tower burst: photographic print and photographic negative, 1955 April 15
  19. George Test of the Greenhouse series, a weapons-related test conducted from a tower on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands: photographic print, 1951 May 08
  20. Mushroom cloud from the "De Baca" test rises from the desert floor at the NTS: photographic print and photographic negative, 1958 October