Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pure tin recovered from old tooth paste, shaving cream and other tubes is drawn off from a electric furnace in the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. A blow torch is used to expedite the flow of tin until the molten metal heats the channel sufficiently to permit steady flow

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 343.