Vital tin and alloy metals are conserved by this procedure
- Date
- c. 1943
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,433 pixels
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