Copper and Brass - Inside brass and copper tube mill
Original description from caption card: “Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio.”
- Date
- 1942-02
- Photographer / author
- Palmer, Alfred T., photographer.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,963 × 3,753 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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