Nevada Historic photos, documents, and people

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view from a watchtower, showing the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, its 1,000 unit housing development, transmission lines and roads

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, showing a peat storage building at the left

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of one of the huge buildings being constructed at Basic Magnesium Incorporated, as seen under a giant concrete mixer

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage building, 540 by 100 feet, a part of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

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U.S. Senator Pat McCarran handing mail bag to Pony Express rider, Dedication Ceremony, McCarran Air Field, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings being constructed at the huge Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

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Lone Palm Motel, swimming pool & trailer park, 4022 South L.A. Highway... U.S. Highway 91 south... Las Vegas, Nevada

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Ambassador Motel, U.S. Highways 93 - 95 & 466, 902 East Fremont Street... Boulder Highway... Las Vegas, Nevada

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Piles of steel girders for the construction of refineries at the Basic Magnesium plant