George Wingfield Records on the Tonopah Divide Mining Company and Other Holdings
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Collection Number: MS-00787 Collection Name: George Wingfield Records on the Tonopah Divide Mining Company and Other Holdings Box/Folder: Oversized Box 07
Photographer's note: "Heliostats at Crescent Dunes Solar, a 110MW tower-style concentrated solar power plant with molten salt storage, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA." Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; Tonopah Solar Energy; aerial; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; molten salt; renewable energy; storage; tower."
People stand around a wooden stage where participants appear to be kneeling. The men in the contest participate in a "Fourth of July drilling contest" as transcribed with photograph, next to a large sign that reads "Chrysler Plymouth Used Cars We Buy & Sell" on the streets of Tonopah, Nevada.
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VI. Tonopah, Nevada -- Subseries VI.F. Potts-Cirac Family. Jeanne Cirac Potts is in the back row just below the "A" in "Fountain" in the window of Ross’s Fountain on Main Street, Tonopah, Nevada. Joe Friel, wearing a large black hat, is to her immediate right. Bob Wardle is ninth from the left in the front row, wearing a wristwatch with a black band. Carr’s Meat Market is at the right, and Tonopah’s Butler Theatre is partially visible on the left.