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Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

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Summary

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.
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 1842.

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Date

01/01/1942
place

Location

galveston county
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Source

Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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