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Aerial view, northeast, showing permanent warehouse buildings, inflammable liquid stores, small stores, electrical shop, structural and machine shop, general stores, temporary buss bar building (right): photographic print, 1942 May 06
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI) Records and Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component
Aerial view, north, from structural machine shop (left) and general stores building (right) overlooking cell buildings No. 1 and No. 2 (center left) and cell units No. 1 and No. 2 (center right): photographic print, 1942 January 20
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI) Records and Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component
Original townsite home reflected in widow of business housed in a townsite home, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph
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Archival Collection
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Thalia Dondero oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Thalia Dondero conducted by Claytee D. White on 2014 March 6 and April 2 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In her interview Dondero discusses community organizing in early Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s. Dondero also talks about her time in the state legislature.
Archival Collection
Harry Hayden Whiteley Architectural Records
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The Harry Hayden Whiteley Architectural Records are comprised of architectural records (1931-1970) created and/or maintained by the American architect Harry Hayden Whiteley and/or his architectural firm, known as Harry Hayden Whiteley and Associates. This collection includes 30.21 linear feet of materials including 45 items from over 30 projects. The collection focuses on his work in the Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada areas. The materials feature both architectural drawings and project files. Architectural drawings include pencil and ink on tracing paper preliminary sketches and mounted artist’s renderings used for presentations and promotional materials. Project files include project correspondence, photographs, and structural calculations. The drawings also contain work from the architect Paul Revere Williams. The collection includes architectural drawings for hotels, shopping plazas, residential developments, and office buildings.
Archival Collection
Rostine, Della Mae, 1905-2003
Della Mae Rostine moved with her husband Rocco to Las Vegas from Missouri in 1942. After living for a year in Las Vegas, they moved to Henderson so her husband could work in construction at the Basic Magnesium plant. She later worked there briefly as a machinist. The plant later became Rheem Manufacturing. "The timing of the Rostine Family's arrival and the fact that they stayed and made a permanent home in Henderson led to their designation as one of Henderson's 'founding families'".
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Aerial view of a portion of the chlorine plant showing brine preparation tanks, footings, steel framing of cell renewal building, chlorine electrolysis buildings, drying, cooling, and liquefaction units between electrolysis buildings, and temporary brick grinding building, 1942 March 31
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection on Basic Magnesium, Inc.
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Archival Component
Southeast view of preparation area, showing from left to right, pulverizer building salt and coal bins, raw magnesite silos, shredded peat storage building site under construction, and sub station No. 5: photographic print, 1942 June 18
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI) Records and Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component