{"id":694,"date":"2005-12-02T04:44:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-09-28T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:38:18","slug":"dancers-on-the-hanford-theater-stage-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/694\/dancers-on-the-hanford-theater-stage-declassified\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we Dance?<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Dancers<\/a>
\nDancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified<\/strong>
\n2005
\n16.5 h by 30 w inches
\nDigital Painting by Juli Kearns, Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Juli Kearns<\/p>\n

Lightbox enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on a photo from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When I first began looking through the Hanford Declassified Project, no search results appearing for Nagasaki or Hiroshima, I then looked for photos of people dancing. Why? I don’t recollect. Maybe because my husband is a musician and thus music is center in my life and always has been, for my mother was a pianist and I studied violin as a child and teenager. To look for photos related to music and dancing seemed a natural thing to do as music is an important part of the lives of most individuals and I thought it possible there would be music-related photos<\/p>\n

There were a number of music-related photos. Some were of individuals, in costume, performing folk dances in what must have been clubs created for that purpose. There were pictures of people presumably performing the polka, and I remembered that as a child a neighboring friend had a costume made for her polka folk dance performance, complete with Dutch apron and cap, so folk dancing as a hobby in Richland was still going strong in the 60s.<\/p>\n

They enjoyed international folk dances.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"1950<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0054802”
\nAccession Number N1D0054802
\nDocument Number 1423A-50-NEG-C
\nAlternate Document Number 1423A-50-NEG
\nTitle Description INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s) FOLK DANCING,HANFORD PERSONNEL,RECREATIONAL
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 25-Oct-1950
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Jun-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

They enjoyed square dancing.<\/p>\n

\"1954<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0005929”
\nAccession Number N1D0005929
\nDocument Number 10208-NEG-H
\nAlternate Document Number 10208-NEG
\nTitle Description SQUARE DANCERS CLUB
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s) HANFORD SITE PERSONNEL,SQUARE DANCERS CLUB
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 22-Jun-1954
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

They even danced the can-can.<\/p>\n

\"1950<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0055764”
\nAccession Number N1D0055764
\nDocument Number 523-50-NEG-B
\nAlternate Document Number 523-50-NEG
\nTitle Description MEDICAL DEPARTMENT DANCE – 1950
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s) DANCE,HANFORD SITE,MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 05-Feb-2002
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Jun-2002
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

More than once, they danced the can-can. It was apparently a popular dance.<\/p>\n

\"1952<\/a><\/p>\n

I also came across this picture of black dancers performing at a talent show during the war years at what would have been a talent show at the Hanford Theater.<\/p>\n

\"Talent<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0024840”
\nAccession Number N1D0024840
\nDocument Number D-5347-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-5347-NEG
\nTitle Description PEOPLE DANCING
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

The photos made me wonder–what were race relations like amongst the workers who built the bomb? <\/p>\n

With a little research, my understanding is that black individuals who worked at Hanford didn’t reside at the trailer city at Hanford where many working construction lived, or in Richland where the white collar employees were housed in a town built expressly for them. Black workers lived further away in Pasco. And, indeed, having gone through many photos of Hanford Trailer City, I’ve yet to see a black face in any of them.<\/p>\n

I did find black face elsewhere.<\/p>\n

One, two, three and?<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"1952,<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0041342”
\nAccession Number N1D0041342
\nDocument Number 3213-2-NEG-F
\nAlternate Document Number 3213-2-NEG
\nTitle Description HAMTC MINSTREL SHOW
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 28-Mar-1952
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"1952<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0041340”
\nAccession Number N1D0041340
\nDocument Number 3213-2-NEG-D
\nAlternate Document Number 3213-2-NEG
\nTitle Description HAMTC MINSTREL SHOW
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 28-Mar-1952
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"1952<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0041339”
\nAccession Number N1D0041339
\nDocument Number 3213-2-NEG-C
\nAlternate Document Number 3213-2-NEG
\nTitle Description HAMTC MINSTREL SHOW
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 28-Mar-1952
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Vaudeville<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0025605”
\nAccession Number N1D0025605
\nDocument Number D-6593-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-6593-NEG
\nTitle Description VAUDEVILLE ACT
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hanford<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0025604”
\nAccession Number N1D0025604
\nDocument Number D-6592-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-6592-NEG
\nTitle Description CLOWNS – BUY BONDS
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

There are fewer pictures of black faces, in the Hanford Declassified archives, than there are of black face<\/span><\/h4>\n

Pictures of black individuals in the database are infrequent.<\/p>\n

All that we learn, in the database, about black people at Hanford is that they waitress.<\/p>\n

\"WAITRESSES<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0024625”
\nAccession Number N1D0024625
\nDocument Number D-4994-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-4994-NEG
\nTitle Description WAITRESSES PREPARING SERVING PITCHERS – SECURITY GUARD STANDING CLOSE BY
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

They drink beer.<\/p>\n

\"WAITRESSES<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0024626”
\nAccession Number N1D0024626
\nDocument Number D-4995-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-4995-NEG
\nTitle Description WAITRESSES SERVING DRINKS TO CUSTOMERS
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002<\/em> <\/p>\n

They dance and sing.<\/p>\n

\"Hanford<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and they go to jail.<\/p>\n

The one picture I came across of an individual being arrested, in the entire Hanford Declassified archive, was of an apparently intoxicated black woman being put into a paddy wagon. <\/p>\n

Which was interesting to me, that this was the sole picture of a person being arrested in the archive. <\/p>\n

A black woman.<\/p>\n

\"Patrol<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0025435”
\nAccession Number N1D0025435
\nDocument Number D-6181-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-6181-NEG
\nTitle Description PATROLMEN PUTTING WOMAN IN PADDY WAGON
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose that says quite a bit about race relations at Hanford.<\/p>\n

“The Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office (RL) has aggressively implemented the commitments made by the Federal Government to openness in Government which was stated as a ‘Fundamental principle that an informed citizenry is essential to the democratic process and that the more the American people know about their Government, the better they will be governed. Openness in government is essential to accountability . . .’ RL is committed to responsible openness. The Hanford Declassification Project (HDP) was initiated by RL to declassify to the maximum possible extent all previously classified Hanford operations information (documents and photographs). There are over 77,000 declassified photographs of early Hanford (1943 – 1960) available… \\These World War II and Cold War era photographs depict early Hanford construction and the employees\/families who lived and build\/operated the site.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we Dance? Dancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified 2005 16.5 h by 30 w inches Digital Painting by Juli Kearns, Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Juli Kearns Lightbox enlargement Based on a photo from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,58],"tags":[33,431],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-paintings","category-remixing-the-hanford-declassifed-project","tag-hanford-and-richland","tag-hanford-declassified-digital-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}