Here ’s a collection of uncommon historical photo from Oak Ridge , Tennessee , a townspeople established by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 on an detached farm . It was a privy locating that became one of the most significant internet site of the Manhattan Project .
Signs at Graphics Department, 1943-1944
Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor’s 44 by 44 feet (13.4 m) concrete face, 1943
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Barn being used for storage, 1943
“The Calutron Girls”, Y-12, 1944
Billboards, 1943-1944
Post office at Christmas time, 1944
The Atom, 1945
Line for cigarettes at Williams Drug Store, Jackson Square, 1945
Entrance to K-25, an uranium enrichment facility, 1945
The Elza bridge, 1945
Welding, 1945
The Oak Ridge Swimming Pool, 1946
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1947
A.E.C. Girls Club, 1947
Oak Ridge Journal Staff, 1947
Santa Claus, 1947
Sports: Basketball and boxing, 1947
Aerial of Y-12, 1947
Wheat Cemetery & Church, 1948
Ogden Circle, 1948
Ed Westcott’s Camera and Entry Pass, 1940s
Safety billboard, 1948
To Man and the Atom, an exhibition in 1948
Dagwood Splits The Atom, 1949
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Willow Brooke School, 1949
Radioisotope separation and production, 1949
Mechanical hands, 1949
Oak Ridge High School, 1951
Erection of pre-fabs, 1951
Loading the Graphite Reactor at ORNL, 1952
Air View of K-25, K-31 and K-33, 1954
Woodland, 1955
Atoms for Peace Exhibit Trucks 1956
Type B home, 1957
A worker at the Graphite Reactor, 1957
Manipulators, 1958
Isotope Storage Area, 1958
Microwave Spectroscopy, 1958
Billboards , 1960
City Sign , 1960
Zonal Centrifuge Lab work, 1967
Vibration Testing, 1967
Safety, 1967
Big Mouth No. 1, 1970
Security – That’s all!, 1970
The pic are fromdoe - oakridge , except when noted otherwise .
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