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MCDONALD RANCH- DRIVE MECHANISM AT BASE OF WINDMILL - White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 and 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM
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Related names:

Oppenheimer, Robert
Groves, Leslie R
Farrell, Thomas
Bainbridge, Kenneth
Williams, John
Kistiakowsky, George
Bradbury, Norris
Manley, John
Wilson, Robert
Bush, Vannevar
Conant, James B
Fermi, Enrico
Bethe, Hans
Babcock and Wilcox Company
Bacher, Robert
Holloway, Marshall
Slotin, Louis
Eichleay Construction Company
Defense Nuclear Agency/TDTR, sponsor
Brenner, William A, historian
Brown, Dick, photographer
Halferty, Bob, photographer
Ontaverous, Frank, photographer
Title
MCDONALD RANCH- DRIVE MECHANISM AT BASE OF WINDMILL - White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 and 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM
Depicted place New Mexico; Dona Ana County; White Sands
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER NM,27-ALMOG.V,1A-11
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structures, the remains of Base Camp, and the restored George McDonald ranch house where the bomb's plutonium core was assembled. Trinity Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated a National Historic Landmark, in 1972.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N670
  • Survey number: HAER NM-1-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1983-1984 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after 1945 Demolished
  • Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000493.
Source http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/nm/nm0100/nm0139/photos/113902pu.tif
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Object location33° 40′ 36.34″ N, 106° 28′ 32.48″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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