Production. Tin smelting. A workman in a Southern tin smelter, protected from harmful dust by a respirator, trims a huge stockpile of ore just discharge from the crushers. A series of smelting operations will extract pure tin for the countless war needs of the United Nations. The raw ore comes to the plant in bags, direct from South American mines
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
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 31, frame 1820.
Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
galveston county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain