Las Vegas, Nevada Historic photos, documents, and people

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. Stacks of magnesium ingots ready for war use by manufacturers of aircraft and tracer bullets, produced by the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen, trucks, railroad boxcars, tool sheds, and many buildings during an early construction period of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Billboards on the grounds of the gigantic plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, one of which shows tracer bullets and reads "MacArthur's job is fighting. OURS is magnesium"

Las Vegas, Nevada. A pipe fitter at work at a pipe, or machinist's vise, near one of the 540-foot peat storage buildings at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two series of buildings and a road between, filled with construction materials, on the grounds of the huge Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium, and a peat-storage building on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, Nevada. Enormous asbestos mittens are worn by the worker handling the hot magnesium ingots produced at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground being leveled at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing a series of structures in the background where the lightest of all metals will be produced

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