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Las Vegas, Nevada. Interior of one of the buildings under construction at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, where magnesium will be produced and this lightest of all metals made available in great quantities for war use

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Interior of one of the buildings under construction at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert, where magnesium will be produced and this lightest of all metals made available in great quantities for war use

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Henle, Fritz, photographer

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Location

clark county

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html