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Executive order No. 9981, Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (July 26, 1948).

The Chicago Defender: By Executive Order-President Truman Wipes Out Segregation in Armed Forces (July 31, 1948).

Oliver W. Harrington: Dark Laughter (April 2, 1960).

Clifford K. Berryman: What's the Use of Going Through With The Election? (October 1948).

Abbie Rowe: President Harry S. Truman Standing in an Open Car, Speaking into Microphones (1948).

Inauguration of Harry S. Truman (January 20, 1949).

Old Hanford Farmhouse (ca. 1943-46)

Hanford Site Construction Camp Located at the Former Hanford Townsite (ca. 1944).

R. Johnson: Worker Housing at Hanford (ca. 1944)

R. Johnson: Worker Housing at Hanford (ca. 1944)

R. Johnson: Barbed Wire Fences Separated the Atomic Projects from the Surrounding Countryside (1944).

Examples of Motivational and Security Signs at the Hanford Site during the 1940s: Absenteeism, War Bonds Advertisement, and Security Reminder (ca. 1940s)

Highlights of Hanford: Is the Food Good? (ca. 1940s)

Highlights of Hanford: Work for Victory (ca. 1940s)

Plant Workers

WAC Officer

Female Workers Proceeding Through Security Gates After Showing Badge (1944-45)

Queen Mary Interior

R. Johnson: Picture of the 100 F Area plutonium-producing reactor (1944).

Hanford plutonium being loaded into TNT at Los Alamos

News Article Telling Workers at the Hanford Site What They Had Been Producing (ca. August 1945)

Grid Pattern of 300 Area Looking West (1979).

President John F. Kennedy at Ground Breaking of the Hanford Generating Plant at N Reactor, October 1963 (1963).

Hanford N Reactor, Hanford Site, Washington. (December 16, 1993).

Sabine Hilding: Hotcell, Interior Fast Flux Test Facility (1999).

Sabine Hilding: Inside Fast Flux Test Facility Reactor, Railroad Tracks (1999).

Sabine Hilding: Entire Fast Flux Test Facility Reactor Complex (1999).

The H Reactor at Hanford on the Columbia River (July 9, 1997).

Department of Energy: Employment at the Hanford Site, 1943-1959 (1997)

Department of Energy: Employment at the Hanford Site, 1960-1990 (1997).

Department of Energy: Massive Groundwater Contamination (ca. 2000)

R. Johnson: Construction of Underground Liquid Waste Storage Tanks at the 300 C Area (ca. 1943)

Hanford Watch: K East and K West, Right Next to the Columbia River (ca. 1993).

Hanford Watch: K West Building, 1993 (1993).

Doug Riggs: The first Multi-Cannister Overpack (vertical tube) leaving the K-Basins. Inside is spent nuclear reactor fuel which had been stored in the K Basins.

Hanford Watch: K West: Highly Radioactive Cesium Canisters Stored Underwater (1994).

Tanks Under Construction

Double-Shell Tank Farm Under Construction

Inside Tank Showing Liquid and Salt Cake.

Computer Generated Graphic Showing Waste Leaking from Tanks Into the Ground ("Vadose Zone") Below them. The Data for this Graphic was Gathered from Drilling Test Wells Below the Tanks.

Darwin Durek: Bonneville Dam Spillway (1998)

Darwin Durek: Columbia River from Cape Horn Overlook (1998)

Darwin Durek: Columbia River from Cape Horn Overlook (1998)

Peter Bacon Hales: Billboard Along Restricted Roadway, Hanford Engineer Works Site (1990).

Aerial View: Fish Hatcheries on the Columbia River

A Handful of Salmon Hatchlings

Kim Carlson: Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River (June 1999)

Chief Joesph Dam (January 1980)

Bob Heims: Bonneville Lock & Dam (April 1990)

J.W. Thompson: Yakima Reservation Boundary (ca. 1950s)

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