Description provided with image: "Naval Reserves Officer Training Corps Midshipman third class William L. Sweet, University of Southern California, son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Sweet of 519 New Mexico St., Boulder City, Nevada. Sweet operates the anchor windlass on board the USS Missouri during the current midshipmen cruise. The midshipmen are receiving instruction and "on-the-job" training in communications, navigation, gunnery, operations, and engineering during the four-week summer training cruise which will visit New York, Panama, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There are 765 college students now aboard the MISSOURI studying to become future naval officers under the Holloway Plan. Upon returning to Norfolk, Virginia on September 3, the Midshipmen will depart for their homes to prepare for entering the forthcoming college term August 1951."

An image of a prospector with pack mules. Text from the image reads: "Ships of the desert -- Nevada."

This is a coal team such [as] they drive in this country ha[uling] coal to the furnaces. From (?) 24. Twelve and fourteen is what they use hauling freight from the railroad to the inland camps. They are handled by one man and drove with a jerk line.

Curt (Dan?) piloting the Thunderbird Boat at Lake Mead.