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Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for 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 Services
Date1950s
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions25.9 × 20.4 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2005
Category
  • Photographs
Object number2005/5205
LocationNot currently on display

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United States Information Services
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United States Information Services
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United States Information Services
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Image Not Available for Nuclear worker in suit with Geiger counter
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United States Information Services
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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.
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United States Information Services
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Image Not Available for A radiation detection instrument is used to test the flow in a Texas oil line.
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United States Information Services
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