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Jones Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, 20 August 1942: an oak laboratory bench, painted plaster walls, blackened-steel fittings and compact ultramicrochemical apparatus, framed as a candid monochrome documentary photograph. The remaining solution wets the microvessel’s inner base, and the precipitate touches that lowest glass surface beneath the curved meniscus. The clamp jaws touch opposite sides of the microvessel neck; the clamp joins the adjustment screw, and the weighted stand’s feet touch the oak bench. Cunningham’s curled fingers close around the adjustment screw while his forearm rests against the bench edge. Werner and Cefola remain behind Cunningham and the apparatus, with their hands below the lower frame edge. The window’s reflection appears only as a narrow highlight along the glass surface facing camera-left. 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