Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1684.
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alabama
muscle shoals area
safety film negatives
lot 1901
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
phosphorus
elemental phosphorus
phosphorus gases
surplus phosphorus
furnace
office of war information
farm security administration
race relations
united states history
african americans
workers
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Location
alabama
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain