History and Archives

Model shop located in the basement of the Oak Brook Plaza Building, Oak Brook, Illinois. October 3, 1967 (1 of 60)

Air Building, NAL Village. July 3, 1968 (2 of 60)

Moving from Oak Brook to NAL Village. Roger Thompson and Pat Oleck were the last to leave the NAL Oak Brook offices for the Batavia, Illinois site. September 1968 (3 of 60)

Moving from Oak Brook to a house in the NAL Village Batavia, Illinois. September 1968 (4 of 60)

Typical house in the NAL Village. October 1968 (5 of 60)

Che Che Pinqua Street in the NAL Village. November 29, 1968 (6 of 60)

The Batavia High School Band playing at the NAL Village after the Linac groundbreaking ceremony. December 1, 1968 (7 of 60)

Curia and the Director's house ready for the open house after the NAL Linac groundbreaking. December 1, 1968 (8 of 60)

Engineering Services house open to guests after the NAL Linac groundbreaking ceremony. December 1, 1968 (9 of 60)

Main Ring House in the NAL Village. December 1968 (10 of 60)

Float in the NAL Village to be entered into the Batavia Parade. August 2, 1969 (11 of 60)

Donald Tokarz inside the Linac Drift Tube. August 2, 1969 (12 of 60)

Start of NAL Village bike race with Barb Rozic in the lead. August 2, 1969 (13 of 60)

Main Ring Groundbreaking Ceremony with Barb Rozic and Hazel Karmer. August 2, 1969 (14 of 60)

Halloween party with Carol Weissert and Jack Jagger. October 1969 (15 of 60)

Arthur Leverenze of Elgin and R. Bruce Waddell of Dundee unloading ten Canada Geese into a pond at the National Accelerator Laboratory. The geese were a gift to NAL from the Izaak Walton League of Illinois. Leverenze is Director Buildings and Maintenance for the Elgin School District. Waddell is an Illinois State Representative, and resides in Dundee. December 30, 1970 (16 of 60)

"Felicia Ferret" investigates the boundaries of one of her latest runs, the opening in a vacuum pipe in the Meson Lab at NAL. The plan was for her to draw the string held by Wally Pelczarski (designer in the Main Ring Section) through the vacuum pipe so that a swab could be attached and also pulled through, cleaning out unwanted construction particles. July 21, 1971 (17 of 60)

Felicia Ferret. August 6, 1971 (18 of 60)

Felicia Ferret. August 6, 1971 (19 of 60)

NAL Protons basketball team. Front row - Mike Wilks, Maurice Harlan, James Hanks, Kenneth Cahill, Cutchlow KC Cahill, Second row - Larry Tate, Dave Billingsley, Roy Justice, Curtis Danner, Mike Armstrong. November 30, 1971 (20 of 60)

Felicia Ferret. December 22, 1971 (21 of 60)

Users Committee Chair and future Fermilab director Leon M. Lederman of the Physics Department of Columbia University speaks at the Dedication of Fermilab. May 11, 1974 (22 of 60)

Baby bison. May 30, 1974 (23 of 60)

Group working on early prairie restoration. October 1974 (24 of 60)

Group working on early prairie restoration. November 1974 (25 of 60)

Geese on steps of Central Laboratory Building, later named Wilson Hall. May 29, 1975 (26 of 60)

Fermilab director Robert R. Wilson dancing. November 3, 1977 (27 of 60)

Pony ride at lab picnic. July 20, 1980 (28 of 60)

Fermilab director Leon Lederman in the dunk tank at the lab picnic. July 20, 1980 (29 of 60)

Fermilab director Leon Lederman after being dunked at the lab picnic. July 20, 1980 (30 of 60)

Train ride at lab picnic. July 20, 1980 (31 of 60)

Fermilab director Leon Lederman with Leslie Renfrow, Miss Illinois 1981, during her visit to the lab. Renfrow is wearing a costume designed by lab artist Angela Gonzales. April 29, 1981 (32 of 60)

Director Leon Lederman at the Fermilab horse barn, c. 1983-1984 (33 of 60)

Fermilab director Leon Lederman with a cryostat in the Wilson Hall atrium. April 29, 1982 (34 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (35 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (36 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (37 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (38 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (39 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (40 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (41 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (42 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (43 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. June 18, 1982 (44 of 60)

Fermilab 15th anniversary celebration. Left to right: Robert R. Wilson, Fermilab's founding director, Phil Livdahl, Fermilab's interim director, and Leon M. Lederman, Fermilab's second director. June 18, 1982 (45 of 60)

Second lab director Leon M. Lederman with children. July 15, 1982 (46 of 60)

Celebration of accelerating the beam to 512 GeV. July 3, 1983 (47 of 60)

Physicist Helen Edwards with Fermilab director Leon M. Lederman. July 3, 1983 (48 of 60)

Second lab director Leon M. Lederman dancing. July 7, 1983 (49 of 60)

Second lab director Leon M. Lederman with a horse and children. August 10, 1982 (50 of 60)

Second lab director Leon M. Lederman with a chicken at the Theoretical Astrophysics Group's Pet Parade. May 30, 1984 (51 of 60)

Second lab director Leon M. Lederman. March 1989 (52 of 60)

Director Leon Lederman dressed as a knight on his horse, Cody. March 1989 (53 of 60)

Cover of an invitation to the Wilsons' 50th anniversary celebration. August 1990 (54 of 60)

Glenn Lee helping with the removal of Linac Tank #6. June 8, 1993 (55 of 60)

Fermilab director John Peoples kicking a soccer ball at the opening of the Village soccer field. June 8, 1995 (56 of 60)

Former director Leon Lederman's 80th birthday party. June 8, 2002 (57 of 60)

LHC First Beam Pajama Party. September 10, 2008 (58 of 60)

People in the Remote Operations Center (ROC) doing the Harlem Shake. February 15, 2013 (59 of 60)

Fermilab celebrates its 50th anniversary on June 15, 2017 (60 of 60)