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• A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Large 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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• American Smelting and Refining, Garfield, Utah (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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