Old lead mines here have been reopened, Creede, Colo. Creede for many years was "a ghost town," but has resumed the activities that made it an important lead producing center years ago, and is now producing much vitally needed metal for the war effort
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- Date
- 1942-12
- Photographer / author
- Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,094 × 7,346 pixels
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"Old lead mines here have been reopened, Creede, Colo. Creede for many years was "a ghost town," but has resumed the activities that made it an important lead producing center years ago, and is now producing much vitally needed metal for the war effort" (1942-12). Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_lead_mines_here_have_been_reopened,_Creede,_Colo._Creede_for_many_years_was_%22a_ghost_town,%22_but_has_resumed_the_activities_that_made_it_an_important_lead_producing_center_years_ago,_and_LCCN2017878854.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 123273.
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