The research subject files series (1974-2010) contains subject files and reports concerning the socioeconomic, environmental, transportation, disposal, handling, and health and safety impacts and concerns occurring from the site.
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This set includes: site plans and redlining.
This set includes drawings for Loudermlk Investments (client).
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This set includes: site plans, redlining, preliminary sketches, floor plans, demolition plans, exterior elevations, building sections and wall sections.
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This set includes: transaction report, grading plans and site plans.
This set includes drawings by Summit Engineering Corporation (engineer).
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Selected letters from Senator Chic Hecht to the Secretary of the Department of Energy, John S. Herrington, regarding the nuclear waste site proposed in Nevada. The letters state the Senator's opposition to using Yucca Mountain as the waste repository site.
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Aerial view of temporary camp for Basic Magnesium Inc. construction workers looking northeast towards Frenchman Mountain.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of photo: "McNeil construction Co. Magnesium plant, Las Vegas, Nevada, 12-8-41"
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The Frank D. Rathbun Photograph Collection dates from approximately 1915 to 1968 and consists primarily of black-and-white photographic prints and some corresponding negatives taken by Frank D. Rathbun and Michael Moen, who resurveyed the various sites Rathbun visited. The majority of the images depict petroglyphs located throughout the desert southwest in Nevada, California, and Arizona, as well as documentary images of the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the Hoover Dam transmission lines. Additional material includes postcards from areas Rathbun visited in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
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