Series 2. Las Vegas Land and Water Company -- General Manager, Manager of Properties, and Manager of Industrial Development in Los Angeles, California -- Industrial Development Subject Files
Description given with photograph: "Pat McCarran, Nevada's senior U.S. Senator, calls on Colonel Stanton T. Smith, Commanding Officer of the Tonopah Army Air Field. They discussed informally the growth of the base, Nevada's only 4th Air Force installation and weighed plans for its betterment."
A group of schoolchildren pose with their teacher, Clarice Bateman (at left), in front the elementary schoolhouse in Tonopah, Nevada. An unidentified woman is seen in the second row. An African-American boy and and Native American Indian boy are seen in the back row; another Native American Indian boy is seen in the front row at the right.