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Aerial view showing Candelaria Partners during cyanide heap leach operation East of Candelaria cemetery in Nevada: photographic print
Date
1980
Description
From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)
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Photograph of Belle Butler and Daisy Rendall at a mine in Tonopah, Nevada, circa 1901
Date
1900 to 1902
Archival Collection
Description
Belle Butler (wife of Jim Butler, lower left), and Daisy Rendall (later married to Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie), pose outside of adits at a mine near Tonopah, Nevada where Jim Butler first discovered gold.
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Photograph of Roy Purcell with a chainsaw at Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Boulder City (Nev.), 1974
Date
1974-03
Archival Collection
Description
Roy Purcell preparing the Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Boulder City to be moved to Clark County Museum in Henderson, March 1974.
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Slide of construction on Hoover Dam, circa early 1930s
Date
1932 to 1935
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white image of equipment being lowered into Hoover Dam. People are watching from the lookout point on the Nevada side of the dam. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
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Photograph of mushroom cloud from atomic testing, Nye (Nev.), March 7, 1955
Date
1955-03-07
Archival Collection
Description
Atomic fireball and mushroom cloud, photographed by Sgt. Robert Cogswell of the U.S. Army. Inscription with photo reads: "from News fifteen and one-half miles from ground zero March 7, 1955, by an Army Signal Corps cameraman."
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