Construction and Operation of Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The construction of the CEW plants with the surrounding city of Oak Ridge was the logistic equivalent of constructing the Panama Canal each year for three years, 1942-45.

• Construction of K-25 Site, Oak Ridge, 1942.
• Construction of Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge, July 1943.
• Aerial Photo of Graphite Reactor Construction, Oak Ridge, 1943.
• Interior of the Graphite Reactor, X-10 Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation.
• Workers Pushing Metal Slugs into the Loading face, X-10 Graphite Reactor.
• K-25, the completed Gaseous-Diffusion Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation.
• Interior of K-25 Control Room, Oak Ridge.
• Aerial View of Pre-fabricated Housing Construction, Oak Ridge, 1943.
• Aerial View of X-10 Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation, 1944.

Daily life in Oak Ridge: WWII, 1942-45
By 1945, Oak Ridge workers and their families numbered over 75,000. The population was housed in pre-fab houses, apartments, dormitories, trailers, and wooden hutments. The enclosed community also had a hospital, dental clinic, schools, shopping centers, cinemas, and recreational facilities.

• Patriotic War Billboard, Oak Ridge.
• Guard Checking a Car Trunk at Elza Gate, Oak Ridge.
• Guard and Watchtower, Oak Ridge Reservation.
• Guard at Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge.
• General Groves Addressing a Group of WACS.
• Women Workers at Y-12.
• Women Workers Leaving Y-12.
• Soldier Greeting Clinton Engineer Workers.
• Boy Scouts Putting Up Christmas Seal Posters.
• "Sunday Punch" B-25 Bomber Purchased by K-25 Workers.
• Recouperating Soldiers.
• Censored Photo of Amputee Soldier, K-25 Plant, Oak Ridge.
• Hutment Housing for Single Males, Oak Ridge.
• Trailer Camp, Oak Ridge.
• Ed Westcott in His Photography Lab, Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge.
• War Ends, V-J Day in Oak Ridge, August 14, 1945.
• Montage of V-J Day Headlines.

Oak Ridge: Post-War Era, 1945-59
In 1946, control of the Oak Ridge plants passed from the military Army Corps of Engineers to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission. The complex became known as Clinton Laboratories. In 1947, the name was changed to Clinton National Laboratory, and, in 1948, to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

• General Groves and AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal, 1946.
• Manhattan Project Lapel Pin, awarded postwar to CEW workers.
• X-10, Clinton National Laboratory.
• Girl Scouts on a Fieldtrip to X-10, 1951.
• Library, Oak Ridge High School.

Portraits: Officers, Scientists, and Politicians
General Groves, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, handpicked Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer to lead a team of scientists at Los Alamos to develop the atomic bomb using radioactive materials produced at Oak Ridge and Hanford, Washington.

• General Leslie Groves, Washington, D.C., July 1945.
• General Leslie Groves, Washington, D.C., July 1945.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Oak Ridge, February 1946.
• Eleanor Roosevelt, Oak Ridge Cancer Research Hospital, 1955.
• Sen. John F. and Mrs. Kennedy with Dr. Alvin Weinberg, Fall 1959.