The Nevada Desert Experience Records (1951-2009) are comprised of files from the anti-nuclear organization, the Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), as well as its predecessor, the Sagebrush Alliance, and those of earlier unincorporated protests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Materials include board of directors meeting minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, personnel records, event speeches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, cartoons and other artwork, newsletters, brochures, fliers, research files on nuclear issues and other anti-nuclear organizations, and congressional testimony. The records also contain audiovisual materials, photographic prints and slides, screenplays, manuscripts, and newspapers related to the NDE's media efforts.
Color portrait photograph of Ruth Eppenger D'Hondt working as a cocktail server for Caesars Palace, dated 1976. D'Hondt worked at Caesars Palace for twenty-six years.
Group portrait photograph of Ruth Eppenger D'Hondt and the Eppenger family, dated 1991. Left to right, seated: Hazel, Willie Maxine, Mattie Ruth (mother), Ruth. Standing: Billy, William (father), Jerry, and BJ (Benjamin).
Photograph of Ruth Eppenger D'Hondt graduating from the School of Evangelism at Second Baptist Church on January 5, 2000. Left to right: Annette (family friend), Erika (Ruth's daughter), Ruth, and Mattie and William Eppenger (Ruth's parents).