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Harry Mortenson oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-01341

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Harry Mortenson conducted by Claytee D. White on April 08, 2014, April 22, 2014, and May 06, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Mortenson discusses his personal background, working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and arriving to Nevada to work as a nuclear physicist at the Nevada Test Site. Mortenson describes his work and recalls anecdotes from his employment. He then talks about his company, Sigma Scientific, and explains the different projects where he worked as a consultant. In the second interview, Mortenson discusses the methods of transportation used to arrive to the Nevada Test Site, his involvement with different organizations, and his tenure in the Nevada State Legislature. In the final interview, Mortenson discusses the device he built to take photographs of the nuclear reactor cores at Las Alamos National Laboratory, and explains how that device worked.

Archival Collection

Yoxen, Louise

Louise Yoxen worked in Germany at the end of World War II participating in our

occupation efforts with France, Great Britain, and Russia. Continuing with

U.S. State Department work, she accepted the next assignment in North Africa.

Originally from Florence, Alabama, Yoxen's work in Germany and Africa finally

brought her to Las Vegas in 1951.

Yoxen met her husband here, raised two children, and worked in the family's

construction business. They helped build Sam Boyd Stadium, structures at Nellis Air

Person

James "Dee" Donithan Collection of Nevada Test Site Photographs

Identifier

PH-00366

Abstract

The James "Dee" Donithan Collection of Nevada Test Site Photographs (approximately 1970-1999) consist of 8x10 photographs depicting flowers, landscapes, wildlife, workers, work sites, and testing equipment at the Nevada Test Site. The photographs were printed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Mercury, Nevada, and collected into a binder by James "Dee" Donithan.

Archival Collection

Interview with Patrick Rowe, November 5, 2004

Date

2004-11-05

Description

Narrator affiliation: Drilling Engineer, Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo)

Text

Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing.

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