Photo album page with Nevada images and news clipping

Title

Photo album page with Nevada images and news clipping

Subject

Nuclear weapons testing victims--Nevada; Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)

Description

A photo album page with 2 black and white images and a newspaper clipping. One image is of a man (Roland Pronovost) in uniform standing in front of a building. He is wearing an MP armband and is standing at parade rest. The other photo is of a single-story building with a sign identifying it as "Company C 505 MP BN." The newspaper article is hand-dated as May 16, 1955, and is about the presence of military police at the Camp Desert Rock atomic testing site in Nevada, and includes an image of PFC Norman S. Mills with a bomb blast in the background.

Date

1955

Is Part Of

Roland Pronovost Collection

Format

Scrapbook

Extent

1 page

Spatial Coverage

8.5 x 11"

Identifier

CPL-RolandPronovost_materials_02

Files

Citation

“Photo album page with Nevada images and news clipping,” Chicopee Archives Online, accessed March 6, 2026, https://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/items/show/10326.