Box 4

Second Contract Volume 2 includes progress reports #11-18, Feb-Sep 1945. Each report includes captioned photographs and there are nine pages of progress curves and graphs. Also included are supplementary notes for Contract 2 in the volume's final pages.

Contracts dated for Jan 1942 (initial contract) and Mar 194 Jan 1943 (additional buildings). Included in this folder are cost estimates for contract 2 which lists the additional structures being built, a dispatch from 21 May 1942 entitled "Engineering News Record #123" which summarizes the progress of work completed and in progress, internal memoranda regarding scheduling, labor graphs, further sheets of building costs, materials used, and other data used for cost and labor analysis.

"Smokeless Powder Plant" is a set of progress reports for Contract 1, starting with "Progress Report No. 2, Feb 1942" through "Progress Report No. 18, Jun 1943." Includes labor graphs and photographs for each report and a topographical map of the site area. It seems that this information is repeated in the bound volumes 1 and 2 entitled "Badger Ordnance Works, First Contract" with the omission of the map and labor graphs.

Loose photographs folder contains a handwritten note (author unknown) stating that enclosed photos are "Material for... brochure." Most of these are aerial photographs but a few are taken on the ground or inside the plant. Each has a page-length caption.