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Brian Painter, Project Director of construction for Crescent Dunes Solar and work colleagues, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-25

Archival Collection

Description

Photographer's note: "Brian Painter, Project Director of construction for Crescent Dunes Solar and work colleagues. On site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; Brian Painter; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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Nellis Air Force Base: Dining Hall and Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing: Progress Prints, 1985 February 26; 1985 September 11

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

This set includes: preliminary sketches, process drawings, redlining, site plans, floor plans, topographic surveys, landscape plans, equipment plans, demolition plans, utility plans, exterior elevations, roof plans, building sections, foundation plans, framing plans, construction details, lighting plans, wall sections and index sheet.

This set includes drawings by Dobrusky Kittrell Garlock Architects (architect), Delta Engineering, Inc. (engineer), Strauss and Loftfield (engineer) and Harris Engineering, Inc (engineer).

Archival Collection

Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00439
Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 119

Archival Component

Deal, L. Joe (Laurie Joe), 1924-2008

Laurie Joe Deal wa born on July 3, 1924 in Hickory, North Carolina. Laurie married Rosa Allen on April 26, 1958 and they had three children: David, Stephen, and James.

Deal obtained a bachelor of science degree in science and math from Lenoir Rhyne College.

Deal is associated with the Nevada Test Site as Director of the Civil Effects Group for the Application Englineering Company (AEC) and as a BioMed member of the Nevada Test Site planning board.

Person

Felt, Gaelen, 1922-

Dr. Gaelen Lee Felt was a scientist who was active during the height of atomic testing in the mid-twentieth century. He worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Felt worked on the Nevada Atomic Test Site and became deputy director of the site in 1955. He then worked for the firm Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG & G), eventually becoming vice president of the company's technical support group. He served on the Nevada Board of Education beginning in 1965.

Person

Hoover Dam, 1930-1965

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

Materials contain photographs of the Hoover Dam and surrounding areas from 1930 to 1965. The Hoover Dam, also known as the Boulder Dam, was constructed on the Colorado River in Black Canyon near Las Vegas, Nevada from 1931 to 1936 during the Great Depression. The dam impounds Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, and it provides hydroelectric power to Nevada, Arizona, and California.

Materials also include photographs of the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological sites, also known as the "Lost City," which were partially covered by the waters of Lake Mead. The area originally belonged to Puebloan peoples. Additionally, the materials contain photographs of the town of St. Thomas, which was also submerged beneath Lake Mead.

Archival Collection

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00214
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Film transparencies of Jack Entratter at his birthday party at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, February 28, 1964

Date

1964-02-28

Description

Jack Entratter with unidentified guests at his birthday party at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino

Image

Photographs of stage productions at the Lido, Paris (FRA.), 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

Six photographs of scenes from productions staged by Donn Arden at the Lido in Paris, France. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photographs of productions at the Lido, Paris (FRA), 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

Eight photos of scenes from productions staged by Donn Arden at the Lido in Paris, France. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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Photographs of production at the Lido, Paris (FRA), 1950s-1960s

Date

1950 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

Ten photographs of scenes from productions staged by Donn Arden at the Lido in Paris, France. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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