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A digging site in a trench at Tule Springs, Nevada. Written on the slide: "Site 4. Fenley Hunter cut."

Portrait of Don Whalen, probably a high school student in Boulder City, Nevada, holding a basketball.

Aerial view of U.S. Lime Products Corporation in Apex, Nevada, showing six silos and a kiln.

A colored postcard showing an artist's representation of Boulder City, Nevada. In the image, the outlines of the small city are distinctively marked by the stark contrast between the city's greenery and the surrounding red desert. Transcribed onto the top border of the image: "Boulder City, Nevada."

Color image of a group of people known as the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), demonstrating against nuclear testing with signs that read "Lord God must this vessel be broken."

Black and white image of Hoover Dam with the following printed description: "Looking upstream through Nevada spillway. Overflow weir under construction at right, completed section of channel lining and parapet at left." Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Description provided with image: "Ground breaking at NSU for radiological lab building USPHS. L-R: D. R. Chadwick, Chief, Division of Radiological Health, Washington,D.C.; Alan Bible, U. S. Senator from Nevada; Oliver R. Placak, officer in charge, SW Radiological Lab, Las Vegas; Dean William Carlson, NSU; Mrs. Juanita White, Regent University of Nevada; Richard Ronzone, regent; Howard Cannon, U.S. Senator from Nevada."