Technician smears phosphorous paste on equipment, St. Louis, Missouri, 1945
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Photograph. The first step to render phosphorus radioactive. Official Caption: "(Series of Six) ROME, 6/9/45--Clinical use made of 'Atom Smasher'--Here is a series of pictures the 'Atom Smasher', which does not really break up atoms, but transforms them into an unstable element with radioactive properties similar to radium.--PBS photos--Serviced by Rome OWI ( A List Out)--Approved by appropriate military authority.-o-Here is the first step to render red, or non-crystalline, phosphorus, radioactive. Phosphorus paste is being smeared on the 'target' on which it is to be exposed to the powerful cyclotron beam. 6533A." St. Louis, Missouri, United States. 9 June 1945
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06/09/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Saint Louis
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38.617
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-90.183
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Chemicals
Radioactive substances--Missouri
Defense industry--Missouri