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[Corporal John Morton Booker of Co. I, 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, in uniform with Bowie knife, flintlock pistol, and tin drum canteen with his name on it]

[Corporal John Morton Booker of Co. I, 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment...

Photograph shows identified. Case: Leather; scroll design. Formerly identified as Corporal John Morton Booker of Co. I, 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) Purchase... More

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin for the countless war needs of the United Nations is produced from South American ore in this American smelter. The plant, recently built in a Southern city, is being rapidly enlarged to meet the heavy demand for the invaluable metal it produces. It is the finest and most modern tin smelter in the world

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin for the countless war needs of the ...

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 Informa... More

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 wareho...

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 Informa... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Production. Tin smelting. Two laboratory assistants at a Southern tin smelter perform delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. Two laboratory assistants at a Southern tin ...

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 Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives with husbands in the service sort empty metal tubes that will be melted down at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. These workers separate tin and lead tubes from containers made of other materials. In addition to recovery of tin, a substantial volume of lead is reclaimed for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives...

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 Informa... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

[Tin: The huge mare of Hungarian and Arabian origin in the third section of the Imperial Stud Farm] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[Tin: The huge mare of Hungarian and Arabian origin in the third secti...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. No. 51. In album: Horses at the Imperial Stud Farm, Istanbul environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collecti... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Recovery of tin from squeezed-out toothpaste and other collapsible metal tubes begins at drug and other stored where the critical metal is collected under the tube-for-tube exchange plan. Millions of tubes are collected in this way for recovery of tin at government controlled salvage plant in New Jersey

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Recovery of tin ...

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 Informa... More

Altoona Car Shops, Cabinet, Tin & Machine Shop, 201 Chestnut Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Altoona Car Shops, Cabinet, Tin & Machine Shop, 201 Chestnut Avenue, A...

Significance: The Cabinet, Tin and Machine Shop is one of the first buildings completed when the Altoona car shops moved to Fourth Street in 1869. Survey number: HAER PA-230-C Building/structure dates: 1869 I... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Chalfonte Hotel, Tin House, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May County, NJ

Chalfonte Hotel, Tin House, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, C...

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is a small painted sheet metal structure, on the grounds of the Chalfonte Hotel. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1442 Survey ... More

Production. Tin smelting. Tin is recovered from smelting furnace smoke in a Southern operation that produces pure tin from South American ore. All the smoke from the furnace is carried by long tubes to Cottrell precipitating units as shown. Here an electrical current of 65,000 volts throws out all the tin held in the smoke, and makes a valuable addition to the supplies of tin now needed for the countless critical war uses of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Tin is recovered from smelting furnace smoke...

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

The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those nations taking part in the fight. These are Chinese workers drilling in a Netherlands East Indies tin mine with American-made drills. For many years nearly all our tin has come from the Pacific area

The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Production. Tin smelting. A section of the smelting or furnace building of a large Southern plant in which pure tin is extracted from South American ore. At the left is a row of "pot boilers" in which the pure tin is kept at a temperature of about 750 degrees Fahrenheit until it is poured into molds. The plant is the finest of its kind in the world

Production. Tin smelting. A section of the smelting or furnace buildin...

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 Informa... More

Green Butte Copper Company, Tin Shed, McCarthy Creek 12 miles Northeast of McCarthy, McCarthy, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Green Butte Copper Company, Tin Shed, McCarthy Creek 12 miles Northeas...

Significance: Part of the Green Butte Copper Company mining operation. This rectangular, 10' x 14' structure is made of corrugated metal and has 'Seattle Hardware Co., Green Butte Mining' stenciled on its wall... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Chalfonte Hotel, Tin House, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May County, NJ

Chalfonte Hotel, Tin House, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, C...

2009 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: It is a small painted sheet metal structure, on the grounds of the Chalfonte Hotel. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1442 Survey ... More

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

Production. Tin smelting. A workman in a Southern tin smelter, protect...

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

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Daley's Tin Shop, Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, MO

Daley's Tin Shop, Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, MO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-91 Survey number: HABS MO-1319 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a S...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin smelter performs delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin sme...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at a Southern tin smelter. Pure tin will be produced here from South American ore to meet the countless war needs of the United Nations. This smelting operation, the first of its magnitude in the United States, has already achieved a heavy output of the invaluable pure metal

Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at...

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 Informa... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America's salvaged tin cans is used in the war effort. The complete utilization of discarded cans includes one percent tin and ninety-nine percent steel scrap. Here, carloads of this "black scrap," the leftover steel from the discarded cans, from which the tin has been removed, is being shipped to a steel mill where it will be forged into weapons of war

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America...

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 Informa... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. Used tin cans, which in normal times would be discarded and forgotten, are transported to a de-tinning plant where they will undergo reclaiming processes. Much of the tin reclaimed from these cans will be used on more cans containing foodstuffs for American soldiers abroad

Tin can alley leads to victory. Used tin cans, which in normal times w...

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 availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out metal tubes, donated by patriotic Americans, are sorted in the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tin and lead are separated from containers made of aluminum and other metals. James Butler, age 18, is waiting for his call to the service, brings up another batch, which will be expertly sorted by Mrs. Martha Brawn

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out met...

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 Informa... More

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cataret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street ...

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

Tin can alley leads to victory. Molten tin, salvaged from old cans, in an Eastern de-tinning plant is molded into a "pig." Dross is skimmed off during the pouring operation

Tin can alley leads to victory. Molten tin, salvaged from old cans, in...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. Acid tanks at a Southern tin smelter--the finest and most modern plant in the world. The acid is used in one of the processes of separating the tin from the impurities in the ore. Construction is still going on at this plant, which has already achieved a heavy output of the pure tin needed for countless war uses of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Acid tanks at a Southern tin smelter--the fi...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. Storage piles of slag at a Southern tin smelter that extracts the pure metal from South American ore. This slag is reintroduced to the smelting process as many times as it is able to yield up useful constituents. The large amount of pure tin produced at this plant serves to meet many of the countless war demands of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Storage piles of slag at a Southern tin smel...

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 Informa... More

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 wareho...

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 Informa... More

Love & Bilger Tin Shop, 150 West California Street, Jacksonville, Jackson County, OR

Love & Bilger Tin Shop, 150 West California Street, Jacksonville, Jack...

Significance: The tin shop on the north side of California Street was originally part of a block known as "Kennedy's Row," where Matthew G. Kennedy had a tin shop until 1856. The original structure was evident... More

A black and white photo of two men in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men in a factory. Office of War Informa...

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

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find your favorite brand? A small section of the stockpile of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received for reclamation at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Some 400,000 pounds of these tubes are received monthly at this plant, where they are melted down and cast into pigs of solid metal for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find you...

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 Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other similiar metal tubes, into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Heavy demands from war industries has prompted recovery of tin from collapsible tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten t...

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 Informa... More

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. These bales of vital tin are now ready for collection. In many United States cities, cans are collected through the cooperation of the local salvage committee and trash collector, who sends the cans on their way to the de-tinning plant

Tin can alley leads to victory. These bales of vital tin are now ready...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Office of War Informati...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory balance to determine the amount of tin remaining in slag from the furnaces of a large Southern smelter which extracts the pure metal from South American ore. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory ...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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 Informa... More

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cartaret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print for LC-USE6-D-10450 in lot 1940. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. ... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Joseph Schoot, age 18, tends a remelting furnace at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tooth paste and other metal tubes each month. Note the small stream of tin flowing from the furnace into the channel

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Joseph Schoot, a...

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 Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the millions of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Frank Thomas, age 19, works at the trimming of the huge pile of squeezed-out tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the mill...

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 Informa... More

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermite company. The metal has been reclaimed from tin cans

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermit...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

[Thomas Isaiah Booker in Confederate uniform with Colt navy revolver, book, tin drum canteen, and sign reading Jeff Davis and the South!]

[Thomas Isaiah Booker in Confederate uniform with Colt navy revolver, ...

Photo shows identified soldier from Louisiana from either Co. D, 8th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment; Co. B, 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, or Co. B, 29th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Case: Leather; circle and s... More

[Lou Ambers cooking over a campfire, using a tin can on a stick) / Staff photo by Alan Fisher

[Lou Ambers cooking over a campfire, using a tin can on a stick) / Sta...

A black and white photo of a man cutting a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man cutting a piece of wood. Office of Wa...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin smelter performs delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin sme...

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 Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Mrs. Madge Lewis, widow and ex-sales lady, tests old tooth paste and other tubes for metal content in the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This test on an electric iron helps to identify tin and lead tubes from containers made of other metals

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Mrs. Madge Lewis...

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 Informa... More

Two men working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photogra...

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 Informa... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. "Pig" of pute tin, all recovered from discarded cans, are stored in the vault of an Eastern detinning plant, pending their reuse in the form of airplane motor bushings, gas mask canisters and other vital war accessories

Tin can alley leads to victory. "Pig" of pute tin, all recovered from ...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. Raw tin from South American mines is stored at a Southern smelter where the pure metal will be extracted to meet the countless war needs of the United Nations. Each stack of bags represents a fifteen thousand dollar value

Production. Tin smelting. Raw tin from South American mines is stored ...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. A sample of slag from one of the furnaces of a Southern tin smelting plant is tested to determine its tin content. After it has cooled, the sample is sent to the plant laboratory for analysis. At this smelter, the most modern plant of its kind in the world, pure tin is extracted from South American ore to meet the countless war demands of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. A sample of slag from one of the furnaces of...

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 Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pigs of practically pure tin reclaimed from old tooth paste and other tubes in the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Each pig, which is approximately ninety-five percent tin, weighs ninety-seven to one hundred pounds

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pigs of practica...

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 Informa... More

Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory balance to determine the amount of tin remaining in slag from the furnaces of a large Southern smelter which extracts the pure metal from South American ore. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Production. Tin smelting. Tin ore just discharged from the crusher of a Southern smelter is stored in large stockpiles in readiness for further operations in the extraction of pure tin for the countless war needs of the United Nations. The raw ore is shipped in bags direct from mines in South Africa

Production. Tin smelting. Tin ore just discharged from the crusher of ...

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Production. Tin smelting. Long tubes carry all the smoke thrown off by the furnaces of a Southern tin smelter to Cottrell precipitator units. Here all tin carried in the smoke is removed by an electrical current of 65,000 volts, and added to the metal secured more directly in other stages of the process. The large amounts of pure tin recovered from South American ore in this plant serves countless war purposes of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Long tubes carry all the smoke thrown off by...

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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

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pure tin recover...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almost pure tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other metal tubes, is removed from a heating pot for pouring into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tubes each month

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almos...

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[Five boys making tin utensils, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

[Five boys making tin utensils, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Penn...

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Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin is molded into "bars" at a large Southern smelter in which the metal is extracted from South American ore. The tin is usually kept at a temperature of about 650 degrees while being molded. The metal is ready for removal in bars about two minutes after pouring

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin is molded into "bars" at a large So...

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Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin smelter performs delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin sme...

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Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these Harlem youngsters organize a Tin Can Club of America, under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. At their headquarters in a vacant store at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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Tin can alley leads to victory. Third step in household preparation of tin cans for salvage; tuck both ends inside the can and step on it firmly. Don't hammer it flat

Tin can alley leads to victory. Third step in household preparation of...

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San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been removed from salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite company

San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been re...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Checking the flow of tin, reclaimed from empty collapsible tubes, into melting pot at the reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant receives millions of collapsible tubes turned in by consumers under the tube-for-tube exchange plan

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Checking the flo...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used metal tubes at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tubes made of different metals are segregated into separate bins

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used met...

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Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Tin can alley leads to victory. Precious tin cans, collected in a municipal drive, pass through a shredding machine in one of the nation's detinning plants. This is part of the process which recovers vital tin from the cans

Tin can alley leads to victory. Precious tin cans, collected in a muni...

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Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these youngesters a Tin Can Club of America under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. Their headquarters in a vacant strorefront at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermite company. The metal has been reclaimed from tin cans

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermit...

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Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Production. Tin smelting. "Pot boilers" of a Southern tin smelter in which the pure metal is kept at a temperature of about 750 degrees Fahrenheit until it is poured into molds. The plant, which processes South American ore is the finest and the most modern in the world

Production. Tin smelting. "Pot boilers" of a Southern tin smelter in w...

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Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Lafayette Hardware, 121 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Lafayette Pa...

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Lafayette Hardware is an excellent commercial typology example of the late nineteenth century. It is a two-story building that retains much of its Italianate ... More

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a S...

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