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Following the conclusion of World War II, American citizens were filled with a sense of national pride and moral weightiness. In this photograph, similar feelings are evoked in the dramatic framing of the three Boy Scouts with their wind-swept United…

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Of all the housing built in wartime Oak Ridge by the Civil Engineering Works, none presented more primitive conditions than the hutments. Only 14-feet by 14-feet in size, the hutments had dirt floors, coal stoves, and no glass windows. In summer when…

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During the first years of the Manhattan Project, coal from the nearby Cumberland Plateau was the only fuel used for heat. A coal-burning steam plant in Oak Ridge piped steam for heating through miles of overhead pipe to most public…

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Cubicle operators at control panels of calutrons at Y-12.
Gladys Owens is seated at right front closest to camera.
The man standing in the back is Connie Bolling, supervisor.

The Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant was a Manhattan Project…

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