86-G-8A-15
3023 W.B Fingers of Distruction Guaging and weighing a 50 caliber ball cartridge in an endless row, Production for national defense is geared up to top speed at this army arsenal in Philadelphia. photo by Palmer
- Date
- 1942
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,842 × 7,302 pixels
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