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U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 29, 2019<span style="display:none">(2019-03-29)</span> (aged 97)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee" title="Oak Ridge, Tennessee">Oak Ridge</a>, Tennessee, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Photographer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a> photography</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Edward Westcott</b> (January 20, 1922 – March 29, 2019) was an American photographer who was noted for his work with the United States government in <a href="/wiki/Oak_Ridge,_Tennessee" title="Oak Ridge, Tennessee">Oak Ridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. </p><p>As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-sunsite_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HD.30.912_(14651763854).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg/170px-HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg/255px-HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg/340px-HD.30.912_%2814651763854%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2284" data-file-height="2855" /></a><figcaption>Westcott as a young man</figcaption></figure> <p>Ed Westcott was born on January 20, 1922, in <a href="/wiki/Chattanooga" class="mw-redirect" title="Chattanooga">Chattanooga</a>, Tennessee, the son of Jamie and Lucille Westcott, and moved to <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a> with his family as a child.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Ed expressed an interest in photography, his father saved for a year to buy him a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Foth_Derby&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Foth Derby (page does not exist)">Foth Derby</a> camera that cost $25. The gift of that camera in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Depression</a> year of 1934 started young Ed on the path to his future career. During his teenage years, he got into the business of <a href="/wiki/Developing_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Developing film">developing film</a> for friends and neighbors and worked in several Nashville <a href="/wiki/Portrait_photography" title="Portrait photography">portrait</a> studios.<sup id="cite_ref-LeePage16_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage16-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1941, he joined the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Corps of Engineers">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a photographer in the Corps' Nashville District. His job for the Corps sent him around the region to create photographic documentation of several <a href="/wiki/Dam" title="Dam">dams</a>, a site in Tennessee that later became a prisoner-of-war camp, and the airport and other facilities at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Campbell" title="Fort Campbell">Fort Campbell</a> on the Tennessee–<a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a> border.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LeePage15_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Photographer_for_the_Manhattan_Project_and_its_aftermath">Photographer for the Manhattan Project and its aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Photographer for the Manhattan Project and its aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In December 1942, the Army Corps transferred the 20-year-old Westcott to the <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Engineer_Works" title="Clinton Engineer Works">Clinton Engineer Works</a> at the then-secret Oak Ridge site.<sup id="cite_ref-LeePage15_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later recalled that: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>By November 1942, work was nearing completion on army camps, air bases, dams and enemy internment camps in seven southern states where I photographed many areas for site selection and construction progress reports for the US Corps of Engineers. I was one of the last of the 10 cameramen to leave the Nashville District office of the Corps of Engineers and the only one to accept a transfer with the engineers. Having a choice of a project in Alaska or a new job starting near Knoxville that would take a predicted five years to complete, I selected Knoxville.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Hendrix_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Hendrix-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Westcott was the 29th employee hired for the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a> in Oak Ridge,<sup id="cite_ref-LeePage16_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage16-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was to work as an official government photographer from 1942 to 1966. During much of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> he was employed by the Roane-Anderson Company, under contract to the Army Corps. As well as photographing the construction and mechanical workings of the <a href="/wiki/X-10_Graphite_Reactor" title="X-10 Graphite Reactor">X-10</a>, <a href="/wiki/K-25" title="K-25">K-25</a>, <a href="/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex" title="Y-12 National Security Complex">Y-12</a>, and <a href="/wiki/S-50_(Manhattan_Project)" title="S-50 (Manhattan Project)">S-50</a> production facilities, he photographed civilian activities in Oak Ridge for the community's Army-sponsored weekly newspaper, the <i>Oak Ridge Journal</i>. All of Westcott's wartime photos were produced with either a <a href="/wiki/Speed_Graphic" title="Speed Graphic">Speed Graphic</a> or an 8×10 <a href="/wiki/Deardorff" title="Deardorff">Deardorff</a> <a href="/wiki/View_camera" title="View camera">view camera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AMSE2009_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMSE2009-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of his images were among the photos that were distributed to news media with the announcement of the first <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic bomb">atomic bomb</a> and the secret project that created it.<sup id="cite_ref-sunsite_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NARA91-2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the weeks before the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a> in August 1945, prints of 18 of his photographs were made in secrecy in preparation for the announcement. The photographs were declassified and distributed as part of the press kit. He also processed film taken by the damage assessment teams in his laboratory in Oak Ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It took three days to print them; armed guards protected the darkroom.<sup id="cite_ref-Secret_City_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Secret_City-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1945, Westcott became an Army employee again, and in the post-war years he transitioned to employment with the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Atomic_Energy_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Atomic Energy Commission">U.S. Atomic Energy Commission</a> (AEC) after its formation in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-sunsite_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1966 he was assigned to the AEC headquarters near <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Germantown,_Maryland" title="Germantown, Maryland">Germantown, Maryland</a>, where he worked for the AEC and its successor agencies (the <a href="/wiki/Energy_Research_and_Development_Administration" title="Energy Research and Development Administration">Energy Research and Development Administration</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy" title="United States Department of Energy">Department of Energy</a>) until retiring in 1977. He photographed nuclear power stations all over the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NARA91-2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg/220px-Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg/330px-Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg/440px-Ed_Westcott_in_darkroom_1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="818" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Westcott at work in the <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Engineer_Works" title="Clinton Engineer Works">Clinton Engineer Works</a>' <a href="/wiki/Darkroom" title="Darkroom">darkroom</a> in 1945</figcaption></figure> <p>During Westcott's 35-year professional career, his assignments included creating photographic documentation of many notable people, including Manhattan Project scientists <a href="/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Compton" title="Arthur Compton">Arthur Compton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Seaborg" class="mw-redirect" title="Glenn Seaborg">Glenn Seaborg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vannevar_Bush" title="Vannevar Bush">Vannevar Bush</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_O._Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernest O. Lawrence">Ernest O. Lawrence</a>, and <a href="/wiki/James_Bryant_Conant" class="mw-redirect" title="James Bryant Conant">James Bryant Conant</a>, U.S. Army Generals <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Groves" title="Leslie Groves">Leslie Groves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Taylor" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxwell Taylor">Maxwell Taylor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Nichols" title="Kenneth Nichols">Kenneth Nichols</a>, Admiral <a href="/wiki/Hyman_Rickover" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyman Rickover">Hyman Rickover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of War">Secretary of War</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_P._Patterson" title="Robert P. Patterson">Robert P. Patterson</a>, U.S. Senators <a href="/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" title="Estes Kefauver">Estes Kefauver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_McKellar_(politician)" title="Kenneth McKellar (politician)">Kenneth McKellar</a> of Tennessee and <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a> of Ohio, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> director and AEC chairman <a href="/wiki/David_Lilienthal" class="mw-redirect" title="David Lilienthal">David Lilienthal</a>, and seven or eight <a href="/wiki/U.S._President" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. President">U.S. Presidents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sunsite_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunsite-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NARA91-2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-YatesPage13_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YatesPage13-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Westcott's February 1946 photo portrait of Oppenheimer is highly regarded for depicting the Manhattan Project scientific director as a man weary from the tremendous weight of his experience. When he met with Oppenheimer, Westcott learned that the <a href="/wiki/Physicist" title="Physicist">physicist</a> wanted a <a href="/wiki/Cigarette" title="Cigarette">cigarette</a> but lacked the <a href="/wiki/Coin" title="Coin">change</a> to buy some. After Westcott gave him the money he needed, Oppenheimer bought his cigarettes and lit one. Westcott then captured the image of the physicist sitting next to a <a href="/wiki/Fireplace_mantel" title="Fireplace mantel">fireplace mantel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Inn" title="Alexander Inn">Oak Ridge Guest House</a> holding the freshly lighted cigarette in his hand.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In spite of the informality suggested by the cigarette, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a> photography professor Baldwin Lee points out that the photo was carefully planned and posed. According to Lee, Westcott instructed Oppenheimer to sit "slightly askance" and to lean forward slightly, and then he took the photograph from a low vantage point that "makes the viewer physically look up at the man", thus enhancing the subject's perceived importance. Lee's critique also notes that Oppenheimer's gaze does not appear to be directed anywhere in the room, but instead is aimed at "something very distant and something only he can see."<sup id="cite_ref-LeePage23_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage23-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exhibits_and_publications">Exhibits and publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Exhibits and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much of Ed Westcott's photographic work was <a href="/wiki/Classified_information" title="Classified information">classified</a> when it was first created, and some of it remained classified for many years, but access to his work is now largely unrestricted.<sup id="cite_ref-YatesPage13_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YatesPage13-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About 5,000 <a href="/wiki/Photographic_negative" class="mw-redirect" title="Photographic negative">negatives</a> are archived by the <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives</a> in Washington, DC.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His photographs have been widely reproduced, often without naming him as the photographer, in publications and exhibits about the Manhattan Project.<sup id="cite_ref-YatesPage13_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YatesPage13-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first museum exhibition devoted to Westcott's work was organized by the <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Museum_of_Oak_Ridge" title="Children's Museum of Oak Ridge">Children's Museum of Oak Ridge</a> in 1981, entitled "Oak Ridge Seen 1943–1947: 20 Photographs by Edward Westcott". In 2005, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewing_Gallery_of_Art_and_Architecture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture (page does not exist)">Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture</a> at the University of Tennessee in <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a> mounted an exhibition of his photos, entitled "Through the Lens of Ed Westcott: A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City". The <a href="/wiki/American_Museum_of_Science_and_Energy" title="American Museum of Science and Energy">American Museum of Science and Energy</a> and the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge both have exhibits devoted to Westcott and his work,<sup id="cite_ref-AMSE2009_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMSE2009-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in addition to displaying his photos as part of exhibits on the city's history. A selection of works from the Ewing Gallery exhibit is now a touring museum exhibit.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A photograph of an Oak Ridge <a href="/wiki/Supermarket" title="Supermarket">supermarket</a> that Westcott created in 1945, "Tulip Town Market, Grove Centre", was featured by the National Archives as part of a 2005–2006 exhibit named "The Way We Worked".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collections of Westcott's Oak Ridge photographs have been published in the catalog to the Ewing Gallery exhibit (University of Tennessee, 2005; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3">0-9761663-1-3</a>) and in the book <i>Oak Ridge</i> by Ed Westcott (<a href="/wiki/Arcadia_Publishing" title="Arcadia Publishing">Arcadia Publishing</a>, 2005; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7385-4170-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7385-4170-2">0-7385-4170-2</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7385-4170-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7385-4170-9">978-0-7385-4170-9</a>). A photo by Westcott of <a href="/wiki/Shift_work" title="Shift work">shift change</a> at Y-12 during the Manhattan Project, blown up to 20 feet (6.1 m) by 50 feet (15 m), is displayed on the wall of the cafeteria at the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex.<sup id="cite_ref-MuddyBoot_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MuddyBoot-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Westcott resided in Oak Ridge. He was married to Esther Seigenthaler Westcott for 56 years before her death. They had five children.<sup id="cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LeePage18_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeePage18-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His grandson Phil works as a photographer in Alaska for the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a>, documenting the effects of <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a>. In 2005, Westcott suffered a stroke that impaired his speech.<sup id="cite_ref-Secret_City_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Secret_City-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Oak Ridge <a href="/wiki/Kroger" title="Kroger">Kroger</a> Marketplace shopping center, which opened in 2014, is named the "Westcott Center" in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Westcott died on March 29, 2019, in Oak Ridge, at the age of 97.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Shift change at the Y-12 during the Manhattan Project"><img alt="Shift change at the Y-12 during the Manhattan Project" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg/300px-Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg/450px-Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg/600px-Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Shift change at the <a href="/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex" title="Y-12 National Security Complex">Y-12</a> during the Manhattan Project</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Oak Ridge supermarket. Exhibited by National Archives with the title "Tulip Town Market, Grove Center""><img alt="Oak Ridge supermarket. Exhibited by National Archives with the title "Tulip Town Market, Grove Center"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg/300px-Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg/450px-Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg/600px-Supermarket-OakRidge1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="761" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Oak Ridge supermarket. Exhibited by National Archives with the title "Tulip Town Market, Grove Center"</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Calutron operators at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge. This photo motivated Denise Kiernan to write Girls of Atomic City.[19]"><img alt="Calutron operators at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge. This photo motivated Denise Kiernan to write Girls of Atomic City.[19]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg/300px-Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg/450px-Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg/600px-Y12_Calutron_Operators.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1725" data-file-height="1368" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Calutron" title="Calutron">Calutron</a> operators at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge. This photo motivated <a href="/wiki/Denise_Kiernan" title="Denise Kiernan">Denise Kiernan</a> to write <i>Girls of Atomic City</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-MuddyBoot_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MuddyBoot-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:X10_Reactor_Face.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face."><img alt="Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/X10_Reactor_Face.jpg/285px-X10_Reactor_Face.jpg" decoding="async" width="285" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/X10_Reactor_Face.jpg/427px-X10_Reactor_Face.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/X10_Reactor_Face.jpg/570px-X10_Reactor_Face.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2528" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Workers load uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor's concrete face.</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Westcott&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-sunsite-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sunsite_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sunsite_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sunsite_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sunsite_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWelsh" class="citation web cs1">Welsh, Teresa Smith. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140430080355/http://sunsite.utk.edu/westcott/">"The Early Photography of Ed Westcott from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War, 1942–1959"</a> (Online exhibit). Knoxville: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sunsite.utk.edu/westcott/">the original</a> on April 30, 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Early+Photography+of+Ed+Westcott+from+the+Manhattan+Project+to+the+Cold+War%2C+1942%E2%80%931959&rft.place=Knoxville&rft.pub=University+of+Tennessee&rft.aulast=Welsh&rft.aufirst=Teresa+Smith&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsunsite.utk.edu%2Fwestcott%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DRaySmith2006-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DRaySmith2006_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2006" class="citation news cs1">Smith, D. Ray (February 21, 2006). "Ed Westcott – Oak Ridge Photographer Extraordinaire". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oak_Ridger" title="The Oak Ridger">The Oak Ridger</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Oak+Ridger&rft.atitle=Ed+Westcott+%E2%80%93+Oak+Ridge+Photographer+Extraordinaire&rft.date=2006-02-21&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=D.+Ray&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LeePage16-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LeePage16_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LeePage16_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Baldwin Lee (2005), "James Edward Westcott: Photographer", in: <i>Through the Lens of Ed Westcott, A Photographic History of World War II's Secret City</i>, University of Tennessee. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3">0-9761663-1-3</a>. Page 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMajors2012" class="citation news cs1">Majors, Beverly (February 3, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oakridger.com/article/20120203/NEWS/302039992">"Picture this! Famed photog celebrates 90th birthday"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oak_Ridger" title="The Oak Ridger">The Oak Ridger</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 31,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Oak+Ridger&rft.atitle=Picture+this%21+Famed+photog+celebrates+90th+birthday&rft.date=2012-02-03&rft.aulast=Majors&rft.aufirst=Beverly&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oakridger.com%2Farticle%2F20120203%2FNEWS%2F302039992&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LeePage15-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LeePage15_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LeePage15_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLee2005" class="citation book cs1">Lee, Baldwin (2005). <i>James Edward Westcott: Photographer</i>. University of Tennessee. p. 15. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3"><bdi>0-9761663-1-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=James+Edward+Westcott%3A+Photographer&rft.pages=15&rft.pub=University+of+Tennessee&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-9761663-1-3&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=Baldwin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYates2005" class="citation book cs1">Yates, Sam (2005). <i>The Coincidence of Ed Westcott and Oak Ridge, Tennessee</i>. University of Tennessee. p. 10. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9761663-1-3"><bdi>0-9761663-1-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Coincidence+of+Ed+Westcott+and+Oak+Ridge%2C+Tennessee&rft.pages=10&rft.pub=University+of+Tennessee&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-9761663-1-3&rft.aulast=Yates&rft.aufirst=Sam&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-John_Hendrix-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-John_Hendrix_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2006" class="citation news cs1">Smith, D. Ray (May 2, 2006). "Eyewitness to the Death of John Hendrix". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oak_Ridger" title="The Oak Ridger">The Oak Ridger</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Oak+Ridger&rft.atitle=Eyewitness+to+the+Death+of+John+Hendrix&rft.date=2006-05-02&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=D.+Ray&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ed Westcott (2005) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1xHhqLqFHcgC">Oak Ridge</a>, Arcadia Publishing, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7385-4170-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-7385-4170-2">0-7385-4170-2</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7385-4170-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7385-4170-9">978-0-7385-4170-9</a>. Page 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AMSE2009-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AMSE2009_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AMSE2009_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120307161848/http://www.amse.org/content.aspx?article=1223">"AMSE Opens Westcott Photo History Exhibit"</a>. American Museum of Science and Energy. July 16, 2009. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amse.org/content.aspx?article=1223">the original</a> on March 7, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 29,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=AMSE+Opens+Westcott+Photo+History+Exhibit&rft.pub=American+Museum+of+Science+and+Energy&rft.date=2009-07-16&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amse.org%2Fcontent.aspx%3Farticle%3D1223&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+Westcott" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NARA91-2-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NARA91-2_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nara.gov/">"Scope and Content of Photographs of Construction, Facilities, and Community Life at Oak Ridge and Other Manhattan Project Sites (1943–1946), Accession Number NN3-434-91-2"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a>. 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