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Image shows the excavation site for the River Pump House looking west. The Columbia River can be seen in the upper right portion. Several pieces of construction equipment are also visible.

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The photo is looking northwest and shows a water reservoir and brick pump house. In the background there is a brick heat plant.

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Image shows a near complete brick building with a brick stack and power lines in the background.

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Photo is of an excavated lot of what will be a Type B house. A large building in the background can be seen, but is not the B house.

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Photo is looking northeast of an "H" type house.

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Photo is looking northwest of heavily excavated area of the sewage disposal plant. Workers can be seen performing various tasks.

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Photo is looking northwest of a heating plant under construction. Workers can be seen performing various tasks. There are various construction materials and equipment.

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Photo is looking northeast of the Main Office building under construction. Workers can be seen performing various tasks related to masonry and other construction techniques.

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Photo is looking southwest of the progress of the foundation of Drugstore "C".

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Photograph is of excavated site looking southeast.

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Photograph is looking northwest of the Central Receiving Storeroom while under construction.

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Image is looking southeast of the paint shop under construction.

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Image is looking northeast. Building is under construction enclosed in scaffolding and a cement truck backed towards an opening in the front of the building.

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702 Telephone building under construction with stack in the back ground, a few trees, and some construction rubble.

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Photograph is of 1902-B Water tank construction. Looking East.

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Image is of the construction of 784 Heating Plant.

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Image is of the progression of a water tower.

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Foundation looking Northwest. Several workers can be seen doing various jobs amongst the rebar, tarpaulin, and associated equipment.

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Concrete Plant, opposite 221-B Building. Looking Northeast. Image contains two conveyors leading up to hoppers

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Looking Southwest. Image is of a deep and long pit with several workers within the pit, with retaining walls and pipes.

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Looking Southwest. Image is of temporary substation with power lines.

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Looking Northeast. Image is of the foundation of 272-E Shop Building in-work. Various out buildings can be seen in the background.

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Looking East. Image is of the excavation for 107-B Building. An open pit with gravel and various graded surfaces.

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Image of completed first aid building.

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Looking Southwest. A lone worker stand atop the reservoir, a hose runs down the side of the structure to a pump truck with #USA-ME-13-2(unreadable).

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Looking Southeast. Storage building with one visible window and a vent. Construction debris to the side of the building.

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Looking Southwest. Nearly completed storehouse.

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Looking Southwest. Mid construction shot of building 313 Fabrication Shop. Several piles of various building materials are on the ground.

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Looking south east. Phot of completed 303-K storehouse with venting pipe. One stack can be seen in the background, along with other buildings, and power line poles.

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Looking Northwest. Scaffolding surrounds the cinder block walls of the substation. Three workers stand on top of the scaffolding, one is looking towards the camera while two look into the substation. Another workman is climbing timber…

Looking north east shown is the in-work construction progress of Building 305. Several workers can be seen positioning various building materials (beams and blocks). There are two cranes at either end of the building, with several piles of other…

Margie talks about her involvement with Atomic Energy / National Labs, and Kadlec. She fondly remembers the Dorm Club.

Carlos Leon talks about the hiring process, the friends and mentors he had while working in the N Reactor.

Garrold Lyon talks about his time working in Hanford Patrol and at various reactor sites and tank farms. He talks about his sons that still work at Hanford.

Donna Whiteside reflects on moving to Richland when her father moved the family from Montana. Donna worked as a patrolman working graveyard or swing before taking other security related positions until she retired and traveled for sometime in her RV.

Betty reflects on moving to Richland from Tennessee when her father (Cecil Bell) moved from working with Kankakee Ordnance to Hanford in February 1944.

Sandra Paine talks about her time working in the Tank Farms as a Nuclear Chemical Operator. She reflects on the changes that have happened and the pleasant memories while working at the Hanford site.

Lito Ines started as an apprentice operating engineer for the local 370 working as a heavy equipment operator. He immigrated from the Philippines at age 15 in 1967.

Cliff Groff was a reporter for the Tri-City Herald before becoming a writer for the Hanford Site. He started writing as an operations procedure specialist and retired as the senior engineering writer. In addition to working as a writer for the…

Peggy Gardner relocated to the Hanford area when she followed her parents and started out working as a gas station attendant/mechanic/wrecker driver before accepting a machinist position with Westinghouse.

John Garcia's career at the Hanford Site spanned over 20 years, primarily working as a nuclear process operator at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) and as a health physics technician (HPT) at various facilities like PUREX, Tank Farms, and the True…

Jack came to the Hanford site in 1969 as an intern and built his career at Hanford labs. He received an AEC Fellowship and worked with thermoluminescent dosimetry. Ultimately expanded the field of Medical Radiation Physics.

Robert Brown started at the Hanford Site from 1948-1971. Robert worked for B Reactor and H Reactor, 300 area, 703, and was an elected member of the Richland City Council. He worked for General Electric, Douglas United Nuclear, and Energy Research and…

Larry Gabaldon moved to Washington in 1977 to work at the Hanford Site. Larry spent time in the 300 Area as an electrician, and also assisted at 100-N (N Reactor), Tank Farms, and the FFTF.

An interview conducted as part of the Hanford Oral…

Shirley Stewart's father, Chester McGee, settled in the Cold Creek area and drilled the last, and one of the largest, artesian wells on the central plateau. Shirley grew up on the McGee homestead and attended school in White Bluffs.

John McFadden's father, Charles, was the superintendent of the Hanford (Wash.) school district and later an investigator workig for the Du Pont Company.

Biography of Willard J. Kincaid, manager of the First Bank of White Bluffs

The collection includes 30 video oral histories, 18 audio oral histories, 42 other video tapes, and a binder of notes and correspondence from the Mid Columbia Oral History Association/Coalition.

This collection consists of oral histories and audiovisual material held by the CREHST Museum. Part of the collection is oral histories collected by CREHST, both one-on-one and in group settings, the latter recorded public events the museum put on. …