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040 _aDLC
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100 1 _aPeterkin, Ernest W.
245 0 0 _aErnest W. Peterkin papers,
_f1946-1992
_g(bulk 1946).
300 _a400
_fitems.
300 _a1
_fcontainer and
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_foversize.
300 _a0.4
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, journal, writings, notebook, orders, photoreproduction of sketchbook, and other papers kept by Peterkin as a member of the scientific group which photographed the atomic blasts during Operation Crossroads, the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1946.
544 _3Watercolor paintings, charcoal and pencil drawings, sketches, a sketchbook, and photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aNaval officer and engineer. Born 1920; died 1995.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008133
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_xTesting.
650 0 _aOperation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946.
651 0 _aBikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
_xHistory.
656 7 _aEngineers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aNaval officers.
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856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008133
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008133.3
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