Las Vegas, Nevada - Historic photos, documents, and people

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A worker's wife watering a newly planted lawn around one of the thousand demountable houses built adjacent to the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas storage tanks rest upon the floor of the southern Nevada desert at Basic Magnesium's giant plant, where magnesium is produced

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas storage tanks rest upon the floor of the southern Nevada desert at Basic Magnesium's giant plant, where magnesium is produced

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Some completed and also some unfinished buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant. The building at the far right of the picture is still in the steel structure stage

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing workmen engaged in the steel structure of one of the chlorination plants

Las Vegas, Nevada Historic photos, documents, and people