The Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Photograph Collection contains black-and-white photographs of locations on or near the Nevada Test Site (NTS) from 1963 to 1965 as documented by the Nevada Test Site News from 1963 to 1981. The collection includes photographs of Cat Canyon, Native American artifacts, cabins formerly occupied by prospectors and miners, caves, the town of Rhyolite, Nevada, buildings for the set of the film The Reward, Wahmonie Mining District, and White Rock Spring.
The Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Photograph Collection contains black-and-white photographs of locations on or near the Nevada Test Site (NTS) from 1963 to 1965 as documented by the Nevada Test Site News from 1963 to 1981. The collection includes photographs of Cat Canyon, Native American artifacts, cabins formerly occupied by prospectors and miners, caves, the town of Rhyolite, Nevada, buildings for the set of the film The Reward, Wahmonie Mining District, and White Rock Spring.
The collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials are arranged by geographical location.
The Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo) was a corporation that managed personnel, operation maintenance, and administration at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) from 1952 until 1995 when it was dissolved. REECo was a subsidiary of the company Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc. (EG&G), which oversaw testing and research at the NTS as a contractor for the United States Department of Energy.
Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company Photograph Collection, 1963-1981. PH-00200. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were donated in 1982 by the Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company; accession number 1985-035.
Materials were processed by in 1985. In 2015, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden wrote the collection description in compliance with current professional standards.