Lunch counter, 1947 [photograph].

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Lunch counter, 1947 [photograph].

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Building 17, new addition, 8-18-47. [Description from photo index.]. In 1944 Building 17 was just a shelter located near the east gate, large enough for two picnic tables. A food preparation area, a small counter, and stools were later added and it became known as the lunch counter. In the summer of 1947 the counter was extended to accommodate more of the Lab's 500 employees, as seen in the photo above. The lunch counter was enlarged again by August 1951, enclosed with canvas walls and several more picnic tables were added. Also in August 1951 a modern cafeteria opened in Building 114, the present site of the JPL Store. It could seat 109 people and the Lab population by that time was more than 800. Even after the 114 cafeteria opened, the old lunch counter was used, especially by people working at the east end of the Lab. There is now a small parking lot where the lunch counter used to stand, northeast of Building 11. Building 121 near the east gate also served as a cafeteria during the 1960s.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...