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Production. Magnesium.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Fritz Henle  (1909–1993)  wikidata:Q85731
 
Description American photographer, artist and fashion photographer
Date of birth/death 9 June 1909 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dortmund, Germany Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Work period 1938-1993
Work location
United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q85731
Title
Production. Magnesium.
Description
Magnesium, ready for war uses. Production of this lightest of all metals, vitally needed in the United Nations' war effort, is increasing daily at Basic Magnesium's giant plant in the southern Nevada desert. A 24-hour production schedule results in the turning out of thousands of ingots ready for shipment to aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers
Date February 1943
date QS:P571,+1943-02-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium 1 negative : nitrate
Dimensions 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
  • Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-009329 (b&w film nitrate neg.)
  • LC-DIG-fsa-8b08227 (digital file from original neg.)
  • Call Number: LC-USE6- D-009329 [P&P]
  • Other Number: J 621655
Notes
  • Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches).
  • Title and other information from caption card.
  • LOT 1820 (Location of corresponding print.)
  • 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 33, frame 1083.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8b08227.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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