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Bringing Home to the Homefront

Black and white photo of two women tending to a garden in front of a trailer.

While most of the work in Oak Ridge involved concrete and industrial engineering, many women found a way to make living conditions a little more hospitable. In this photo we can see a woman and her daughter tending to their flower garden in an Oak Ridge trailer park.

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US Department of Energy/Ed Westcott 8/8/1946

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Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Code: MAPR

Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latitude: 35.8809471130371, Longitude: -106.301979064941

NPS.gov Collection

03/31/2014

03/31/2014

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Trailer 1946 Oak Ridge Housing Flower Garden.jpg

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