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Description:
Southern Pacific conductor Jack Privitt at the rear of his coal train approaching the North Valmy Power Plant at Valmy, Nevada, on December 13, 1985. The plant's cooling towers send dramatic clouds of steam into the blue desert sky. The North Valmy plant, with a generating capacity of 522 megawatts, is one of two coal-fired power plants in Nevada. With no coal reserves in the state, all coal burned in Nevada is shipped in by rail. Also see record 2413. |
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Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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Shirley Burman, Sacramento, California |
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Spatial, Valmy, Nevada; Temporal, December 13, 1985 |
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Creator Description:
Shirley Burman, a photographer and photo-historian, dropped out of high school in 1952 to join the Women Marines, where she found romance, was married, and ultimately became the mother of five children. In 1972, she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of California, David, and began a career as a photographer and illustrator. She collaborated on the book Whistle Across the Land (1983), has created two traveling exhibits about women in railroading, and is widely published. |
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Shirley Burman Collection |
