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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Kenneth C. Hall, foreman of the hot mill gauging the thickness of a sheet of aluminum which is being rolled

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Workman gauging the thickness of a sheet of aluminum which he is rolling

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Workman gauging the thickness of a sheet of aluminum which he is rolling

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Sheet of aluminum which has just been rolled from the hot mill

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the aluminum slab is first rolled into a sheet

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Sheet of aluminum which has just been rolled from the hot mill

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the aluminum slab is first rolled into a sheet

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the aluminum slab is first rolled into a sheet

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Checking the thickness of aluminum rod being rolled in the structural mill

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Kenneth C. Hall, foreman of the hot mill gauging the thickness of a sheet of aluminum which is being rolled

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01/01/1942
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Sheffield (Ala.) ,  34.76500, -87.69861
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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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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often go boating o the Tennessee River

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Shelf after shelf of aluminum castings on their way to the heat treating oven for low temperature precipitation treatment. These castings are for aluminum piston heads. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Hill of bauxite

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall, wife and daughter rowing on the Tennessee River

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Mr. Giles, research director, with apparatus for determining the amount of pure aluminum in various oxides produced during the process of producing aluminum pigs

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills like quicksilver from this homemade bucket-sized ladle and pours white-hot into a mold to cast experimental parts for bombers in Clayton's foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. Foundry foreman R.G. Campbell watches the color of the pour from the left. J.L. Clayton, city fireman, who built the foundry as a hobby, is pouring with the aid of his Negro helper

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Checking the thickness of aluminum rod being rolled in the structural mill

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Workmen entering plant during change of shifts

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. In order from top to bottom and in about the proper proportions are all the ingredients used in the making of the final product, which is aluminum

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Kilns for reducing alumina from bauxite mixture

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alabama colbert county sheffield safety film negatives sheffield ala reynolds alloys company reynolds alloys company kenneth kenneth c hall foreman mill thickness sheet aluminum history of alabama united states history workers library of congress