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National War Industries Projects, 1942
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The National War Industries Projects series (1942) contains five binders compiled by the Manager of Industrial Development that detail war projects in Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and California.
For each project in each corresponding state, there is a standard form listing the location, a description of area and improvements, cost of project, owner, operator of plant and railroads serving plant, and any affect on Union Pacific property or facilities, including whether new access track or other changes to facilities was required. Types of projects include processing, production, manufacturing, and assembly plants, supply depots, training camps and airfields, Japanese and alien internment camps, and prisoner of war camps. There is an index of projects by both state and type of plant.
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Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
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Robert "Bob" Agonia oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robert “Bob” Agonia conducted by Marcela Rodriguez-Campo on September 6, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Agonia recalls his community being very diverse, with families sharing Filipino and Mexican American heritage and his neighbors being Japanese Americans. Agonia also discusses the role he played in starting the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) engineering school, and helping start a Minority Engineering Program at UNLV. He then speaks about Latino community involvement in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Atomic bomb Hiroshima picture: photographic slide
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From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Picture has Japanese letters on it. The bottom of the picture says, "ATOMIC BOMB "HIROSHIMA".
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