Archive Case File: Their Bones Still Hold Radium (Radium Girls)

A compiled case file you can actually sit with. Sources already filtered. Exhibits in order. Built to read alone, print, or open with friends and family — not a skim you could cobble together from a search.

This record was kept. Case CF-2026-10-013. Read it with the lights on.

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In the years around the First World War, young women painted glowing numerals onto watch dials, shaping their brushes with their lips. This printable radium girls case file follows radium girls history the record actually kept: a 1935 federal court opinion that set down the bench method in detail, a county medical examiner who found radium in a painter's bone, the settlement five New Jersey women accepted in 1928, company papers so contaminated they were scanned and destroyed, and the ground in Orange and Ottawa that is still being cleaned.

You get six sourced exhibits, a timeline, a clear note on where the legend outruns the evidence, and a full source list so you know what you are reading. Credible compiled research, ready to enjoy and pass around.

• Format: printable PDF · US Letter · 12 pages
• Case: CF-2026-10-013
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