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Damaged timekeeping device from the Nevada Test Site: photographic slide

Date

1950 (year uncertain; year approximate) to 1977-09 (year and month uncertain; year and month approximate)

Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). Old footage stills or photographs from the Nevada Test Site. 

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Nevada Test Site Roadrunners Special Projects Collection on Reconnaissance Aircraft

Identifier

MS-00761

Abstract

The Nevada Test Site Roadrunners Special Projects Collection on Reconnaissance Aircraft dates from 1965 to 1998 and contains flight manuals, technical manuals, pilot information, and photographs pertaining to reconnaissance aircraft and programs. The collection includes four A-12 technical manuals, National Air and Space Intelligence Center publications, and a list of pilots who flew the U-2 (Dragon Lady) aircraft from 1955 to 1993. Twenty of the twenty-eight photographs are color prints and include cockpit and flight images.

Archival Collection

Postcard of Boulder Canyon Dam site, Boulder Canyon (Ariz.), 1905-1920

Date

1905 to 1920

Description

Arrow pointing to canyon where the Hoover Dam site is proposed. Inscription on card reads: "Boulder Can[y]on Dam Site. Reservoir site. Boulder Can[y]on - Colorado River Looking Down Stream. J. F. Perkins Photo."

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Slide of the desert near the Nevada Test Site, March 20, 1988

Date

1988-03-20

Description

Color image of the desert near the Nevada Test Site where the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience) gathered to demonstrate against nuclear testing.

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Construction site for the Union Plaza and Hotel, image 005: photographic print

Date

1971-04-06

Archival Collection

Description

Construction site for Union Plaza Hotel and Casino on the right, the bus depot on the left, in the background is Union Pacific Railroad Station, October 8, 1970.

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Photographic slide of people at Dangberg site, Douglas County, Nevada, August 3, 1962

Date

1962-08-03

Description

Unidentified people working at an excavation site, presumably at Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park. Written on the slide: "Dangberg Site. Douglas County, Nevada."

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Photograph of the Lost City site, near Overton, Nevada, 1938-1939

Date

1938 to 1939

Description

Circles formed of rocks and stones are seen outside a brick building at the Lost City site (or Pueblo Grande de Nevada), near Overton, Nevada.

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Photographic slide of geological site in Pershing County, Nevada, circa early 1960s

Date

1960 (year approximate) to 1963 (year approximate)

Description

Written on the slide: "Looking across site Pe-69. Sites Pe-73 and Pe-74 on next ridge. Looking south. Pershing County, Nevada."

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Film transparency showing an atomic explosion at the Nevada Test Site, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

A view of an atomic cloud at the Nevada Test Site.

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Film transparency showing an atomic explosion at the Nevada Test Site, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

A view of an atomic cloud at the Nevada Test Site.

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