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Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City
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Ed Westcott (1922 - 2019) <br /><br />Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning. Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period. After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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Ed Westcott was a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.
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photograph
Date
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1943 - 1947
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The Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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archival inkjet print
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The United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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'The Beginning or the End," Grove Theater, 1947
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Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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archival inkjet print
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United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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1947
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photograph
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“The Beginning or the End,” a docudrama about the development of the first atomic bombs, was a big attraction at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge in March 1947.
Ed Westcott
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Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City
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Ed Westcott (1922 - 2019) <br /><br />Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning. Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period. After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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Ed Westcott was a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.
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photograph
Date
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1943 - 1947
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The Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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archival inkjet print
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The United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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archival inkjet print
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United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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AEC Patrol Talking with an Early Settler, Oak Ridge, 1944
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1944
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photograph
black and white
Ed Westcott
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photograph
Tennessee
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Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City
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Ed Westcott (1922 - 2019) <br /><br />Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning. Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period. After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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Ed Westcott was a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.
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photograph
Date
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1943 - 1947
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The Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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archival inkjet print
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The United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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Air medal and oak leaf cluster being awarded to the late Sergeant Jasper J. Richardson; Mrs. Richardson, A Tennessee Eastman Company Employee, Receives the award from Lieutenant James E. Thornton, Army Air Force, June 7, 1945
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Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
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1945
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archival inkjet print
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photograph
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United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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Death
photograph
Tennessee
War
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Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City
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Ed Westcott (1922 - 2019) <br /><br />Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning. Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period. After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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Ed Westcott was a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.
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photograph
Date
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1943 - 1947
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The Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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archival inkjet print
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The United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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AIT Bus Line Welding Shop, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1945
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Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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archival inkjet print
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United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
black and white
Ed Westcott
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Tennessee
transportation
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans American, 1903 - 1975 <br /><br />Walker Evans is best known for his 1930s and 1940s documentary photographs of the United States. He spent his early career experimentally photographing the streets of New York. From 1935, he worked for the Farm Security Administration and travelled through the mid-West and Southern states of America creating his most important and significant work. His collaboration with the writer James Agee for <em>Fortune</em> <em>Magazine</em> also resulted in the groundbreaking book, <em>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</em> (1941). In 1938, Evans was the first photographer that the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored with a solo exhibition called <em>Walker Evans, American Photographs. </em>
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gelatin silver prints
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photographs
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In the 1930s, Walker Evans photographed the victims of economic depression in the American South for the Resettlement Admiration, later called the Farm Security Administration. In 1936, Evans left the FSA to return to Alabama and Louisiana with Knoxville-born writer, James Agee, to document the life of sharecroppers for <em>Fortune Magazine</em>. This magazine assignment would eventually become <em>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</em>, published in 1941.
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Library of Congress
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Allie Mae Burroughs
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Walker Evans
American, 1903 - 1975
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gelatin silver print
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photograph
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Ewing Gallery Purchase
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1935 or 1936
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Library of Congress
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Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City
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Ed Westcott (1922 - 2019) <br /><br />Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning. Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period. After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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Ed Westcott was a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.
Type
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photograph
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1943 - 1947
Subject
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The Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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archival inkjet print
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The United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
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Army Post Exchange
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Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
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archival inkjet print
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United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
Ed Westcott
photograph