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Transcript of Interview with Otis & Tisha Harris, September 15, 2010

Date

2010-09-15

Description

Otis and Tisha Harris detail the businesses that existed in West Las Vegas.

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Photograph of workers inside the Basic Magnesium plant, Henderson, Nevada, December 3, 1942

Date

1942-12-03

Description

Interior view of the Basic Magnesium plant in Henderson, Nevada, showing four men working at machines.

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Photograph of an African American worker at the Basic Magnesium Plant in Henderson, Nevada, January 20, 1944

Date

1944-01-20

Description

View of an African American man pouring liquid magnesium into a container at the Basic Magnesium plant in Henderson, Nevada.

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Evolution of a Black Community in Las Vegas: 1905 - 1940

Date

1981

Description

Essay by Roosevelt Fitzgerald exploring the history of the black community in Las Vegas from its founding in 1905 through the 1930s.

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Essay, A Demographic Impact of Basic Magnesium on Southern Nevada, by Roosevelt Fitzgerald, May 12, 1982

Date

1982-05-12

Description

Essay by Roosevelt Fitzgerald focusing on demographic changes in southern Nevada from 1940-1945 and the war industry's effect on black employment, particularly the impact of Basic Magnesium, dated 1982.

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Photograph of Basic Magnesium Inc., Henderson, Nevada, circa 1900-1910

Date

1900 to 1910

Description

Basic Magnesium Inc. Shows workers and silver bus bars, connections to chlorine cells.

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Photograph of U.S. Senator & Mrs. McCarran at the Basic Magnesium Inc. plant, Henderson (Nev.), circa 1943

Date

1942 to 1944

Description

U.S. Senator Pat McCarren and his wife Martha McCarran touring the Basic Magnesium, Inc. plant. From original description: "Seven million dollars in silver bus bars ?' x 8" lengths, 2 foot to 40 foot long (Due to lack of copper)."

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Photograph of Victor Kunkel, Pat McCarran, and others at the Basic Magnesium Inc. plant, Henderson (Nev.), circa 1943

Date

1942 to 1944

Description

Left to right: 1. U.S. Treasury Guard, 2. Victor V. Kunkel, 3. F.O. Case, 4. Senator Pat McCarran, 5. Pop Mooney, and 6. U.S. Treasury Guard standing in front of silver bus bars at Basic Magnesium Inc. plant.

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Photograph of bus bar drilling at the Basic Magnesium Inc. plant, Henderson (Nev.), July 8, 1942

Date

1942-07-08

Description

Men drilling 7/8" holes in bus bars using machines at the Basic Magnesium Inc. plant.

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Aerial photograph of the Basic Magnesium Inc. plant, Henderson (Nev.), September 8, 1942

Date

1942-09-08

Description

"Air view, east, metal producing plant, with trailer camp and construction boarding camp in background. McNeil Construction Co. Magnesium Plant. Las Vegas, Nevada. 9-8-42. 1118." Basic Magnesium Inc. manufacturing plants were built in an unincorporated area southeast of Las Vegas. That area is now Henderson, Nevada.

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