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Safeguarding Atomic Workers: A lead brick wall, long-handled tongs, rubber floves and abron, and a radiation counter protect the health of a worker conducting radio-isotope research
Safeguarding Atomic Workers: A lead brick wall, long-handled tongs, rubber floves and abron, and a radiation counter protect the health of a worker conducting radio-isotope research

Safeguarding Atomic Workers: A lead brick wall, long-handled tongs, rubber floves and abron, and a radiation counter protect the health of a worker conducting radio-isotope research

Creator United States Information Service (USIS)
Date1950s
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions25.9 × 20.4 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2005
Category
Object number2005/5205
LocationNot currently on display

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United States Information Service (USIS)
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United States Information Service (USIS)
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United States Information Service (USIS)
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Image Not Available for Herbert Brown chief process technician of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, inspects a container of radioactive material being used in experiments on atomic radiation as food preserver
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United States Information Service (USIS)
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Josef Sudek
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United States Information Service (USIS)
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Nuclear worker in suit with Geiger counter
Nuclear worker in suit with Geiger counter
United States Information Service (USIS)
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Image Not Available for Space programme launch site. Workers walk inside web of steel struts which form walls to be reinforced by concrete.
Space programme launch site. Workers walk inside web of steel struts which form walls to be reinforced by concrete.
United States Information Service (USIS)
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Image Not Available for Construction workers stand 50 feet above ground dwarfed by walls of steel cables.
Construction workers stand 50 feet above ground dwarfed by walls of steel cables.
United States Information Service (USIS)
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Image Not Available for Two patients at the Brookhaven Medical Research Center, Long Island, New York, undergo treatment for leukemia by extra corporeal irrigation of their blood.
Two patients at the Brookhaven Medical Research Center, Long Island, New York, undergo treatment for leukemia by extra corporeal irrigation of their blood.
United States Information Service (USIS)
September 1 1968
Photograph
Image Not Available for Interior of the Columbia Broadcasting Company control center in New York City where trans-Atlantic television transmissions via Early Bird communications satellite were handled.
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United States Information Service (USIS)
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Image Not Available for A radiation detection instrument is used to test the flow in a Texas oil line.
A radiation detection instrument is used to test the flow in a Texas oil line.
United States Information Service (USIS)
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