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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Busy stacks give evidence of all-out war production effort at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1733.

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ohio lucas county toledo safety film negatives lot 2015 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo fiberglass corporation war production effort fiberglass busy stacks office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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lucas county
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ohio lucas county toledo safety film negatives lot 2015 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo fiberglass corporation war production effort fiberglass busy stacks office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress