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Photographic slide of a person cooking at Tule Springs, Nevada, January 20, 1963

Date

1963-01-20

Description

A person cooking inside the "cook shack" at Tule Springs camp site.

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Slide of grist mill building, Panaca, Nevada, June 1970

Date

1970-06

Description

Old grist mill building, also site of sawmill, in Panaca, Nevada.

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Photograph of mountains and the winding river, Hoover Dam, approximately 1930-1933

Date

1930 to 1933

Description

Looking down from the Hoover Dam construction site at the Colorado River.

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Photographic slide of Tule Springs, Nevada, January 10, 1963

Date

1963-01-10

Description

Norma Noble and Ruth Simpson working at site #6. January 10, 1963

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Ford Family, 1931-1988

Level of Description

Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographs from the Ford Family from 1931 to 1988. Materials include photographs of cowboys working, mushroom clouds from the Nevada Test Site, the First Pahrump Harvest Festival, ranchers, the Pahrump School, and photocopies of documents such as the front page of the Pahrump Valley Times and the telephone directory.

Archival Collection

Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00221
Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Subject Files, 1963-2006

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

The subject files series (1963-2006) is comprised of the Nevada Desert Experience's (NDE) research files on topics such as Congressional testimony, nuclear facilities and testing, the Nevada Test Site, nuclear weapons and waste, notable people, treaties, and organizations related to the NDE. The materials include publications, government reports, notes, treaties, and newspaper clippings.

Archival Collection

Nevada Desert Experience Records
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Collection Number: MS-00524
Collection Name: Nevada Desert Experience Records
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Best Evidence, "John Wayne's Death," The Discovery Channel, 2007

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

Additional information from donor: Suspicious links between high cancer rates in Southern Utah to the radioactive fallout from the nuclear explosion tests at the Nevada Test Site, with John Wayne's death from cancer being a high-profile study. People affected by the nuclear fallout in Southern Utah are known as "down-winders."

Archival Collection

Scott Rayer Collection of Television Programs about Las Vegas, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-01130
Collection Name: Scott Rayer Collection of Television Programs about Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

Archival Component

Photograph of blasting rock, Hoover Dam, circa 1932

Date

1931 to 1933

Description

Railroad workers at Hoover Dam site blasting rock in the background at noon-time; this was the site where cofferdam was built. Note on back: "High scalers setting off blasts on Nevada side. - W. A. Davis."

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Photograph of the Houssels House, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1983

Date

1983

Archival Collection

Description

Houssels House at its original site (1012 S. 6th St.), hidden behind a blooming bush. Site Name: Houssels House Street Address: 1012 South 6th Street

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Postcard of an atomic explosion, Nevada, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Photograph of an atomic explosion at Frenchman's Flat which is located in the Nevada National Security Site. It is just south of Yucca Flat, in Southern Nevada.

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