Phelps-Dodge Refining Company - 1942

Title: Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company Creator(s): Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: 1942 Dec. Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-009695 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b09904 (digital file from original neg.) Call Number: LC-USE6- D-009695 [P&P] Other Number: H 6215 Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 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 41, frame 727.

Area: Mission Valley / Alfalfa

Source: Library of Congress

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History