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Civilian defense. Extremely valuable in battling incendiary bombs is the stirrup pump operated by three, or in cases of emergency, two men. The volunteer worker closest to the camera is pumping water from the bucket on the reef, while the man barely visible in the center replenishes the water supply from another bucket. The third volunteer, holding the nozzle, which may be adjusted to provide either a spray or a steady stream of water, is spraying magnesium incendiary bomb and the area around it. New improved pumps are being produced in American factories

Civilian defense. Extremely valuable in battling incendiary bombs is t...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of smoke coming out of a chimney. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of smoke coming out of a chimney. Office of Wa...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

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 aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Worker at bending machine producing complex curves. The wires for the airplanes are inserted through these magnesium tubes

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Worker at bending machine pro...

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A black and white photo of a man stacking bricks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man stacking bricks. Office of War Inform...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Production. Magnesium. Workmen seventy feet above ground are busily engaged in adding to the already gigantic proportions of Basic Magnesium's plant in the southern Nevada desert. A 24-hour production schedule results in turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Production. Magnesium. Workmen seventy feet above ground are busily en...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 background

Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the construction workers at the Basic Magnes...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert look out across the growing impressiveness of the plant they are helping to build

Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesiu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. The basic townsite office and part of the 1,000 unit housing development on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. The basic townsite office and part of the 1,000 uni...

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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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage building, 540 by 100 feet, a part of t...

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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 and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aluminum casting. A new development in the production of war materials involves use of magnesium. Here a young worker in a large Midwest foundry takes temperature readings of molten magnesium alloy through the protective crust. At the same time he is sprinkling flux to prevent burning at the hole in the crust after removal of the thermocouple. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A new development in the production of war materials...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

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Production. Magnesium. Construction sheds and mountains are landscape features at the present time at Basic Magnesium's thousand-unit housing development near Las Vegas, Nevada

Production. Magnesium. Construction sheds and mountains are landscape ...

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A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an electrical substation. Office of War Inf...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

G.R. Holden, consultant, Aluminum and Magnesium Unit, Production Division

G.R. Holden, consultant, Aluminum and Magnesium Unit, Production Divis...

Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. As insurance against possible shortages of this vital metal, Ford has built its own magnesium foundry. The pot in this photo has just been removed from one of the furnace. This pot holds 100 pounds of the magnesium alloy, which is about to be cast into parts for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Ford River Rouge Foundry

Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. ...

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Aluminum casting. First aid right on the spot. A nurse is in constant attendance in this Midwest aluminum foundry to treat minor cuts and wounds received in production of aluminum and magnesium molds and casting. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. First aid right on the spot. A nurse is in constant ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 for aircraft manufacture

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the...

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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 and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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A black and white photo of a train crossing a bridge. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train crossing a bridge. Office of War In...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian protection. An effective means of extinguishing a magnesium incendiary bomb is to come up over it with a sandbag protecting the face, then drop the sandbag squarely over the incendiary. The heat burns through the burlap, releasing the sand. The sand covers the entire bomb, checking off the air and extinguishing it

Civilian protection. An effective means of extinguishing a magnesium i...

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Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defense pour a large magnesium casting. The molten alloy enters the runner box first. Magnesium is one of the most valuable metals for war production. Exact purpose of this casting is kept secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defe...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical analysis, to match the rapidity with which the nation arms itself, is possible through use of the spectrograph, a marvelous new machine used for study of materials through measurements of the arc of light they emit when heated. The aluminum and magnesium industries, steel companies and foundries use it for quick study of metals. Mines use it for exploration. The spectrograph will yield an analysis of seven elements in fifteen minutes determination, which would require up to four hours by old chemical methods. Three students in defense training courses at a famous mining-engineering school listen as an instructor shows them how the machine operates. Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical anal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Girls dipping magnesium tubing in hot clean bath to get rid of grease and acid

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Girls dipping magnesium tubin...

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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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view from a watchtower, showing the Basic Magnesi...

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Hoover Dam, Hoover-Basic Magnesium North & South Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Hoover-Basic Magnesium North & South Lines, U.S. Highway 9...

Significance: The transmission lines served a vital function during WWII by providing electricity generated at Hoover Dam to the Basic Magnesium plant to the south of Las Vegas. After the war, these transmissio... More

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant...

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A black and white photo of two large cement silos. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two large cement silos. Office of War Infor...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of ore, and other structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of or...

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Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and staff. Standing, left to right: Arthur L. Hawley, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Carroll K. Shaw, executive officer; Ray C. Ellis, director of the Radio Division; T.P. Wright, director, Resources Controll Office, Aircraft Production Board; L.R. Boulware, Office of the Controller of Shipbuilding; M. Joseph Meehan, associate director, Office of Progress Reports; William B. Murphy, director of Facilities Division; William K. Frank, director, General Industrial Equipment Division; A.H. Bunker, director, Aluminum and Magnesium Division; John S. Chaffee, deputy director, Tools Division; R.L. Vaniman, director, Automotive Division; Curtis E. Calder, director general for operations; Ralph J. Cordiner, director general of War Production Scheduling; Captain J.O. Gawne, director, Shipbuilding Division; Francis M. Shields, director, Safety and Technical Equipment Supplies Division; Mordecai Ezekiel, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Fred Searls, Jr., director, Facilities Bureau; James N. Nicely, assistant to Mr. Searls

Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightest of all metals, for incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts. Full production is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Magnesium flash-light photograph of A.P. Cheney of Natick, Louis Schick and Horatio Alger, Jr., of New York City / made Wednesday evening Aug. 7, 1889, by Edgar S. Hayes, landscape photographer, Natick, Massachusetts.

Magnesium flash-light photograph of A.P. Cheney of Natick, Louis Schic...

Photograph shows Amos P. Cheney (left), Louis Schick (center), and Horatio Alger, Jr. (right), full-length, sitting at a table, using a stereoscope to view stereographs.

Las Vegas, Nevada. Pipe fitters at work alongside of one of the 540-foot peat storage buildings at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Pipe fitters at work alongside of one of the 540-fo...

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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. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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. A construction scene at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man working on bricks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on bricks. Office of War Info...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian protection. This volunteer civilian defense worker, an auxiliary fireman, is preparing to extinguish an incendiary bomb. He carries the sandbag before his face to protect him from the molten magnesium sizzling forth like fat from a frying pan. He will drop the whole bag on the bomb, and the heat of the bomb will burn through the burlap, releasing the sand. The sand will then run onto and around the bomb.

Civilian protection. This volunteer civilian defense worker, an auxili...

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Workmen checking the temperature of magnesium alloy and "salting" the mixture (i.e., adding chemical necessary to the particular alloy combination at hand) before pouring it into the moulds. Ford River Rouge Foundry

Workmen checking the temperature of magnesium alloy and "salting" the ...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings being constructed at the huge Basic Magne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 for war use

Las Vegas, Nevada. Smoke pouring from the stacks of the preparation bu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the preparation area of Basic Magnesium's giant plant now nearing completion in the southern Nevada desert. The pyramidal form of 540 x 100-foot peat storage buildings is reminiscent of the Nile country

Production. Magnesium. Like a scene in the Egyptian desert is the prep...

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Production. Magnesium. A year ago this location was the barren desert of southern Nevada. Today an industrial city teams with the activities of over 12,000 workers as tons of steel and concrete give rise to the giant plant of Basic Magnesium. This exhaust tower, ninety feet high, with a portion of a metal recovery unit, in the background, will soon be adding to the huge production of the plant, which is scheduled for full operation in the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. A year ago this location was the barren desert ...

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A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. A billboard on the grounds of the gigantic plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing tracer bullets and reading "MacArthur's job is fighting. OURS is magnesium." In the background can be seen workers' automobiles and some of the eighty-four foot silos and buildings of the plant

Las Vegas, Nevada. A billboard on the grounds of the gigantic plant of...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Magnesium mine in Brazil - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Magnesium mine in Brazil - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing part of the completed buildings already being used for the production of the lightest of all metals for use in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing. Two workmen are walking in the foreground

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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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. A pipe fitter at work at a pipe, or machinist's vis...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing a tool shed and part of two buildings on which construction is going forward rapidly for the production of the lightest of all metals needed for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Magnesium. Two enormous reservoirs at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert, holding fifteen million gallons each, store water piped from a point miles away

Production. Magnesium. Two enormous reservoirs at the huge Basic Magne...

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Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinforcing steel for the concrete floor of one of the 360-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinfo...

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Production. Magnesium. From many watch towers ever-vigilant guards protect Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A guard here looks out on part of the thousand-unit housing development

Production. Magnesium. From many watch towers ever-vigilant guards pro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads an...

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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 aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

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Aluminum casting. Womens' place seems to be on the inspection line in this plant which has been converted to the production of war materials. This young worker is inspecting magnesium alloy and castings. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Womens' place seems to be on the inspection line in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds, showing a variety of structures and at the far right of the picture, two of the eighty-four foot silos in which ore is stored for use in the production of magnesium, the lightest of all metals used in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A giant silo and part of the buildings on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

Las Vegas, Nevada. A giant silo and part of the buildings on the groun...

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Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men handling the thousands of hot magnesium ingots produced daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A number of units of this plant are now in production. Full operation is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoover Dam, Hoover-Basic Magnesium North & South Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Hoover-Basic Magnesium North & South Lines, U.S. Highway 9...

Significance: The transmission lines served a vital function during WWII by providing electricity generated at Hoover Dam to the Basic Magnesium plant to the south of Las Vegas. After the war, these transmissio... More

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 for aircraft manufacture

Las Vegas, Nevada. Two peat storage buildings, 540 by 100 feet, on the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Office of Wa...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Some completed and also some unfinished buildings o...

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Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the stacks of vital magnesium produced at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. This lightest of all metals is used in the making of incendiary bombs, tracer bullets and aircraft parts

Production. Magnesium. Two men of the plant protection force guard the...

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Production. Magnesium. Magnesium, ready for war uses. Production of this lightest of all metals, vitally needed in the United Nations' war effort, is increasing daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A 24-hour production schedule results in the turning out of thousands of ingots ready for shipment to aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

Production. Magnesium. Magnesium, ready for war uses. Production of th...

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Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert points to a water treatment plant in which water piped for miles is conditioned for many uses in the plant and its employee housing development

Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Ma...

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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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas s...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen busy with woodwork inside the steel structure of one of the buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant. Much of the plant can be seen in the background, and beyond it loom high mountains

Las Vegas, Nevada. Workmen busy with woodwork inside the steel structu...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A crossroad sign reading "Victory Road," with buildings, storage silos and transmission lines of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the background

Las Vegas, Nevada. A crossroad sign reading "Victory Road," with build...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage...

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Transformer manufacture. Ready to be sent to aluminum and magnesium plants are these power transformers manufactured by a large Eastern electrical company. Along this aisle of the plant, are other transformers in every stage of manufacture. They are essential to almost every phase of Uncle Sam's war production effort. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Ready to be sent to aluminum and magnesium pl...

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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

Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground being leveled at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...

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Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men handling the thousands of hot magnesium ingots produced daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A number of units of this plant are now in production. Full operation is scheduled for the summer of 1943

Production. Magnesium. Enormous asbestos mittens must be worn by men h...

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Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials for the manufacture of magnesium tower eighty-four feet on the southern Nevada desert. They are part of the huge Basic Magnesium plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials fo...

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Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinforcing steel for the concrete floor of one of the 360-foot-long chlorination buildings at Basic Magnesium's huge plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. High above the Nevada desert workmen lay reinfo...

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A black and white photo of a sign that says there is no subs for safe. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a sign that says there is no subs for safe....

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

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. Billboards on the grounds of the gigantic plant of ...

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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. Billboards on the grounds of the gigantic plant of ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. Other workmen can be seen laying reinforcing steel for the concrete floor several stories below

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing at the far right of the picture two of the eighty-four foot silos used for the storage of ore. Great quantities of the lightest of all metals are produced at this plant for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. A peat storage building can be seen at the left

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage...

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A black and white photo of a large cement silo. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a large cement silo. Office of War Informat...

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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 and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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A black and white photo of a large pool. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a large pool. Office of War Information Pho...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A black and white photo of a billboard in the desert. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a billboard in the desert. Office of War In...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch pails and overalls, and a poster reading "THINK. Safety First. Protect Your Fellow Workmen," at the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant under construction in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch ...

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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. Two series of buildings and a road between, filled ...

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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 and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene inside one of the huge buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. Workmen are busy with the steel structure and carpenter work

Las Vegas, Nevada. A construction scene inside one of the huge buildin...

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Production. Magnesium. Huge clarifier rakes stretch out like giant arms at Basic Magnesium's plant in the southern Nevada desert. One of the ore storage silos, eighty-four feet high, is in the distance

Production. Magnesium. Huge clarifier rakes stretch out like giant arm...

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Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials for the manufacture of magnesium tower eighty-four feet on the southern Nevada desert. They are part of the huge Basic Magnesium plant near Las Vegas

Production. Magnesium. Giant silos for the storage of raw materials fo...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian protection. This spray of water accelerates the burning of the magnesium bomb and cools the surrounding. While this picture serves as a demonstration, it is improbable that such a bomb would be found on a roof like this. Falling from a great height it would burn through and lodge in the upper story

Civilian protection. This spray of water accelerates the burning of th...

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De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker producing simple curved form on magnesium conduit

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker producing simple...

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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. Workmen, trucks, railroad boxcars, tool sheds, and ...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert. A tower of another building and mountain tops can be seen in the background

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the g...

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