LANL: Before And After – Newly Restored Badge Photos From Lab’s Manhattan Project Workforce
National Security Research Center
Los Alamos National Laboratory
A recent large-scale restoration project conserved the badge photos from more than 1,400 Manhattan Project workers. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a recent large-scale restoration project yielded about 1.4 million – not to mention a lot of refreshed faces.
The badge photos of more than 1,400 of the Lab’s Manhattan Project workers – including our most-famous scientists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emilio Segrè and others – had 75-plus years of built-up grime on them. Adhesive tape residue, bits of mounting materials, and environmental filth, like dust, had caused many of these historic images to discolor.