Title

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making...Muscle Shoals area, Alabama, 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer.

Caption

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A79_307

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Rights managed

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152,4Mb (3,4Mb) / 27,6in x 21,5in / 8274 x 6437 (300dpi)

Keywords

South building people male interior library work man men plant industry manufacturing country science trade electricity guy Southern color electric industrial chemical war chemistry authority location century inside Alabama concept chemical plant 1940s smelting furnace Library of Congress phosphate Forties United States of America Colour phosphorus World War II World War two WWII Indoors world war 2 20th century American America USA decade Second World War TGN WW2 working photograph united states 2nd World War chemical element Congressional Library Heritage Art Muscle Shoals Colbert county Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI still image Transparencies Color. gmgpc Alfred T Palmer Palmer Alfred T Alfred Palmer Palmer Alfred Alfred T. Palmer Palmer Alfred T. Tennessee Valley Authority TVA phosphate industry