Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911

A man writes down measurements next to a wagon with a cylinder full of plants. The caption on the photo reads "Evaporation Experiments Reno, Nev." (photographic print, 3.25 x 5.5 inches). The Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, later known as the Physics Building, was the second building constructed on campus in 1889 to house the growing group of Agriculture students. The top part of the building was destroyed in a fire the following year. The building was reconstructed after the fire and housed the Mining School and then the Physics School, until in 1929 when it was demolished to make space for construction of the new Mackay Science Building.