Big Inch pipes on railroad tracks
Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Pipe stacked along the railroad tracks. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(
- Date
- 1942-02
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 939 × 699 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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