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0072Kunkel, Victor
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Basic Magnesium Inc. Plant Las Vegas , Nevada
0001 U.S. Senator & Mrs. Pat McCarran toured plant. Seven million dollars in silver bus bars ½' X 8" lengths , 2 foot to 40 foot long (Due to lack of copper)
0002 Let to right: 1-U.S. Treasury Guard, 2-Victor V. Kunkel, 3-F.O. Case , 4-Senator Pat McCarran, 5-Pop Mooney, 6- U.S. Treasury Guard.
0003 Drilling 7/8" holes in bus bars
0004 Air view, east, metal producing plant, with trailer camp and construction boarding camp in background.
0005 Construction progress of thickener tanks in neutralizing plant, showing wall forms and reinforcing steel in place.
0006 Special bus bar bender.
0007 Bus bar schedule of night and day shifts of bus bar
0008 Bus bar shop- bus bars ready for assembly
0009 Milling edge on bus bars
0010 Construction progress of thickener tanks in neutralizing plant, showing wall forms and reinforcing steel in place
0011 Stacks of bus bars cut to length ; bus bar cutting and storage department.
0012 Hydraulic bending machine for bending ½ X 8" bar cold.
0013 Stacking bus bars ready for fill.
0014 Starting of first building for Basic Magnesium Co., 1942
0015 Ventilation duct in chloration building
0016 Same as above
0017 Finished bus bars ready to be delivered to field
0018 Close-up of hydraulic binder
0019 Milling connector ends of bus bar
0020 Test jigs for bus bar
0021 Heavy duty saw for cutting bus bars to length
0022 Sanding bus bars
0023 Completed bus bars ready to deliver to field
0024 Showing machinery necessary for making bus bars
0025 Special built hydraulic benders for bending bus bars
0026 Water exchange valve room
0027 Plant that processes pellets used in manufacture of magnesium.
0028 Dust collection-Eddie Cleat on, supt. Of masonry
0029 Sheet metal shop fire
0030 Sheet metal shop 1943
0031 General sheet metal office-1943
0032 Four foot heavy shear
0033 Sheet metal temporary storage shop
0034 Part of sheet metal welding shop
0035 Ten foot binding brake
0036 Sheet metal shop -fabrication
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Basic Magnesium Inc. Plant Las Vegas , Nevada (cont.)
0037 Hopper & blow pipe for feeding pellets to building
0038 10 foot shear
0039 Roof ventilators in place. Each ventilator weight 750 pounds.
0040 Roof view of metal building
0041 View of roof of metal building
0042 Roof ventilators in yard
0043 Temporary sheet metal shop
0044 Temporary sheet metal shop
0045 First sheet metal shop before fire
0046 New sheet metal shop after fire
0047 Looking east across roof. Demountable homes in upper part of picture
0048 Special jig pole for installing framework of buildings
0049 Installing ventilator to be installed on metal building
0050 Powerhouse and boiler room
0051 Roof of metal building
0052 Roof of chloration building]
0053 Metal building construction
0054 Anchors for clam shell
0055 Another view of metal building showing construction
0056 Steel support for metal building
0057 Welding brackets for clamshell ventilators
0058 Metal building construction
0059 Anchors for metal building
0060 View of metal building
0061 Metal building
0062 Processing Plant
0063 Roof of Basic Magnesium Plant
0064 Rubber Line American Blower Fan
0065 Metal building unit #10
0066 Metal building unit #9
0067 Special building Union Pacific Railroad siding for magnesium plant
0068 Chlorine gas plant
0069 Processing plant
0070 Warehouse showing Union Pacific Railroad siding
0071 Small warehouse on railroad siding
0072 Pump house and valve for chlorine storage
0073 Boiler house
0074 L-R: Mrs. Pat McCarran; F.O. Case, project manager for BMI; U.S. Senator Pat McCarran; unidentified; Pop Mooney, gen. prog. Store and warehouse manager.
0075 Ralph Simpkins and V.V. Kunkel-"completion of world's largest asbestos protected metal installation, Oct. 2, 1943"
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Basic Magnesium Inc. Plant Las Vegas , Nevada (cont.)
0076 Same as #74
0077 Victor Kunkel placing last bolt in building
0078 Same as above, different place
0079 Foundry room for Basic Magnesium Co. White buildings used for peat moss storage.
0080 Brownie, Keaton and Dave Anderson by the "Lake"
0081 Bathing beauty Helldorado float 1943
0082 Helldorado float leaving McNeil Ranch to Helldorado parade, May 20, 1943
0083 L-R: V.E. McDonnel, R.E. Thomas, W.E. Whittier, Bruce McNeil, F.O. Case, Jack Charles, H. Satterthwaite
0084 Basic Magnesium Plant Las Vegas Nevada (OVERSIZE)
Basic Magnesium, Inc. Plant, Gabs Valley, Nevada
0085 Basic Magnesium, Inc.
0086 Ore being hauled by truck
0087 Aerial view of B.M.I. plant (Dup. in Ellis Coll., Temp #6 , Album #5
0088 Same as Above
Additions to Collection
Arizona and New Mexico
0089 Train collision at Winslow, Arizona. (1892)
0090 Train collision at Winslow, Arizona (1892)
0091 The Devil's Punch Bowl near Winslow, Arizona (Photo by W.Cal Brown & Co., official photographers A&P.R.R.Co.)
0092 Devil's Punch Bowl near Winslow, Arizona. (One of the men is Mr. Kunkel)
0093 Devil's Punch Bowl near Winslow, Arizona. (One of the men is Mr. Smith)
0094 Top of Jasper Hill, in Petrified Forest in Arizona . (Ben Wittick-photographer)
0095 A view of Petrified Forest near Holbrook, Arizona. (Photo by Ben Wittick)
0096 View of the Apache camp in Arizona. (Photo by Ben Wittick)
0097 Indians in camp [somewhere in Arizona]. (Photo by A.A. Forbes)
0098 Mojave Indian camp [in Arizona ] (photo by Ben Wittick)
0099 Tzashima, woman of Pueblo Laguna, New Mexico. (photo by Ben Wittick)
0100 Na-buagh-I-ta, Apache medicine man. (photo by Ben Wittick)
0101 Bonito, Chiricahua chief. (photo by Ben Wittick)
0102 Gai-ten-eh, head chief of Warm Spring Apaches, with his family. (He was successor to Victorio) Photo by Ben Wittick
0103 [Waniga], Mojave woman. (photo by Ben Wittick)
0104 Apache baby. (photo by Ben Wittick)