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• Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in p

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• [Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Coke being pushed into a quenching car, Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Summer scene, N.Y. - drinking water from street pump (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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• Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal tower atop coke ovens (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns, Inc., by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die, Louisville, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• A battery of 1,000 and 2,000 pound furnaces roaring threats to the Axis. These are rotary, oil-fired melting furnaces at Aluminum Industries Inc. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, Ohio. Intense heat is needed to melt the inorganic ingredients of the batch from which Fiberglas insulation wool is manufactured. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, this gas-fired furnace maintains the tempe

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Hot weather Charity [horse] N.Y.C. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1910
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• Louisiana Flood - refugees cook government rations (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1912
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