Ottawa, Illinois
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Ottawa is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. It is located at the confluence of the navigable Fox River and Illinois River, the latter being a conduit for river ba
Downtown Ottawa in May 2008
La Salle Street c. 1912
Veterans Memorial Bridge over the Illinois River in Ottawa
The site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate in Washington Park
Radium Girls
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The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories i
Ottawa, Illinois
…1922, the Radium Dial Company (RDC) moved from Peru, Illinois to a former high school building in Ottawa. The company employed hundreds of women called Radium girls. These women painted watch dials using a paint called "LUMA", which contained a compound of ZnS(Ag) (Silver activated Zinc Sulfide) and powdered radium…
Radium painters working in a factory
The former factory site in West Orange, New Jersey