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El Paso. Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks holding sheets of pure copper that will later be melted and poured into ingots

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942
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Henle, Fritz, photographer
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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