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Three workers outside the Training/Information Relations Building, filling pails from a pickup truck. One of the pails has "USA" written on it.

Insets: D 5343; TRAINING RELATIONS; INFORMATION RELATIONS; USA

A young woman performs a solo, accompanied by woodwinds and brass, at the Camp Hanford Recreation Hall.

Insets: D 5449; 23130-6 JAN GARBER'S BAND CAMP HANFORD REC HALL 7-29-44

A men's basketball game as part of the Christmas special at Hanford. About 100 spectators are present. One player wears a "HUSKIES" jersey.

Insets: D 4907; Season's Greetings; HUSKIES; 8; 11; 25

"The Esquire Girls" in tasseled hats posing in front of a Santa cutout on a stage curtain.

Insets: D4777 "THE ESQUIRE GIRLS" ENTERTAINMENT AT CAMP HANFORD 12/44.

Four-lane highway with median outside the Hanford Site. Traffic is concentrated on one side of the highway.

Insets: D 4566

A divided, four-lane highway leading into and out of the Hanford Site. Traffic is heavy on one side and very light on the other.

Insets: D 4565

A divided, four-lane highway leading into and out of the Hanford Site. Traffic is heavy on one side and very light on the other.

Insets: D 4565

A divided four-lane highway leading into and out of the Hanford Area.

Insets: D 4564

Buses leave the 200 Area. Photo from the top of a guard tower.

Insets: D 4562

Light traffic on Cold Creek Road leading to the 200 Area West Checkpoint. Two policemen stand in the middle of the intersection having a conversation.

Insets: D 4561; Cold Creek Rd.; Speed Limit 35mph

View from a guard tower as buses pass by into the 200 Area.

Insets: D 4560

Workers examining a power station with a busier area of the Site in the background. Several signs read "KEEP OFF THE GRASS".

Insets: D 4559; ME I A G14

View from a guard tower as vehicles continue on their way into the 200 Area

Insets: D 4557

Vehicles at a busy intersection leading to the West Checkpoint of the 200 Area. Police on foot control the traffic.

Insets: D 4556

A caravan of trucks with people packed in the beds pass by the "I Want You to be a Full Time Safe Worker" sign near the Hanford Site.

Insets: D 4558

Numerous cars and trucks head towards the Hanford Site.

Insets: D 4555

Three policemen control heavy traffic at an intersection outside the Hanford Site. Most of the traffic is heading to the entry checkpoint.

Insets: D 4554

Insets: D 4553

Buses, cars and trucks leave the 200 Area of the Hanford Site through the West Guard Station.

Insets: D 4552

Intersection of two unknown roads near the Hanford Site as a full bus drives past a sign reading, "I Want You to be a Full Time Safe Worker -H.E.W." The sign features a woman in uniform with several tools behind her.

Insets: D 4551

Photo taken from the top of the 200 West Entry Checkpoint. Two fence gates are situated ahead on the road.

Insets: D 4550

Buses, cars and employees leaving work from 200 West Areas, Guard Gate

Insets: D 4548

Looking South From 200 West Main Guard House at Road and Security Fence

Insets: D 4547

A named (unreadable) road intersection leading to Hanford, controlled by a 2-way stop. Dense sagebrush fields immediately surround the intersection.

A water tank and tower with supporting buildings and power lines.

Insets: DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE; CLEARANCE 13FT 6IN

The main auditorium at Hanford. Empty when photo was taken.

Insets: AUDITORIUM; STOP - THRU STREET; D4080

Four drinking water tanks, about 25ft wide and 25ft tall. The premises is loosely fenced off from the road.

Insets: D4079

A welding training facility on the banks of the Columbia River. Signs on a fenced section of power line and a water tower emphasize safety at the Hanford Site.

Insets: WAR PRODUCTION TRAINING WELDING; DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE; SAFETY; D4075

A steam heat supply plant, with home offices and shops close in the background.

Insets: D4072

A strip mall including a drug store, barber shop and beauty salon. A large sign outside advertises community activities, such as a free vaudeville show.

Insets: Drug Store; Barber Shop; Beauty Salon; Community Activities; Free! Vaudeville Show;…

An automobile and truck service garage at Hanford with two buildings. A sign reading "SAFETY" is posted on the front door of one of the buildings. Most of the vehicles in the parking lot have "U.S.A." painted on the doors.

Insets: Transportation;…

An Optometrist's shop on "A" Avenue at Hanford. Two war propaganda posters are displayed on the side of the building - one reading "BACK OUR INVADERS" and another with a twin prop fighter place and unreadable text.

Insets: Optometrist; D2323; A…

Library building at Camp Hanford. Small shed with number 118 in the background.

Insets: LIBRARY; LIBRARY HOURS: 10:00 A.M.-10:00 P.M. TUESDAY (?) SATURDAY, 1:00-6:00 P.M. SUNDAY; D 3328

A young boy shines a man's shoes at Camp Hanford. Aircorp Plane with number 218521 on tail is parked by the brick building.

Insets: 218521; D 3269

Post office during business hours at Camp Hanford. US Flag stands on the roof of the building.

Insets: Post Office; (unreadable)

D 3265

Tavern.

D - 3264

A group of eleven children in the fenced playground at the corner of Iraq Street and Eisenhower Avenue in the Camp Hanford Trailer camp. Playground includes a double swingset and a sandbox.

Insets: IRAQ ST.; Eisenhower Ave.

D - 3242

A shoe sale and repair store on the banks of the Columbia River.

Insets: SHOE STORE AND REPAIR; Hanford Shoe & Repairing Co.

A block of trailer homes at Camp Hanford with fenced lots.

A group of about fifteen lined up at the cinema box office at Camp Hanford.

Insets: CINEMA

D 2299

Three iron workers in uniform standing in front of the Hanford Power House.

D 2279

Bernal Femreite came to the Hanford Site to work for Douglas United Nuclear. He worked in the 300 Area, and at many of the Hanford reactors.

Robert Drake was a carpenter on the Fast Flux Test Facility, the WPPSS Project, and the Tank Farms.

Marilyn Drake grew up in the North Richland Construction Camp, attended the John Ball School, and then lived in the town of Richland. Her father worked at the Hanford Site.

Marilyn (Em) DeVine spent part of her childhood in White Bluffs, living in an old farmhouse during the Manhattan Project. Her father was a patrolman and had to be stationed on the site.

Elaine Davis grew up in Richland in the early Cold War. Her father came to Richland in 1944 and was an administrator at Kadlec Hospital. Her older brother was the first baby born in the new town of Richland

Jim Daughtry came to the Hanford Site to work at the Fast Flux Test Facility.

David Criswell worked at various facilities in the 300 area including separations labs and the PRTR.

The Hanford Oral History Project was sponsored by the Mission Support Alliance and the United States Department of Energy.

Frank Cobb constructed the "Redd Sled" to survey the salmon redd's of the Columbia River and to perform underwater water sampling near Hanford Reactors. George Swan worked for the Army Corps of Engineers and oversaw the salmon monitoring program…