Nevada Historic photos, documents, and people

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds in the southern Nevada desert, which produces great quantities of the lightest of all metals

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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 view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing unfinished roads, power lines, telephone lines on which two men are working, and buildings during an early stage of const

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads and buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorperated plant, where the lightest of all metals will be produced for aircraft and other war

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Smoke pouring from the stacks of the preparation building of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, where magnesium, the lightest of all metals is being produced in great quantities

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the steel structure of one of the huge buildings being built at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant which will produce the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other

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Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, working at the pipe vise. He is working on a building near the peat storage building near which he is stand

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Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, working at the pipe vise. He is working on a building near the peat storage building shown in the backgroun

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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