May 21, 2014-- QUICKSILVER CAR: 1942-- December 1942. "Production Mercury. Loading mercury ore into a mine car by hand at New Idria, California plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. Triple distilled mercury is produced from cinnibar, an ore containing sulfur and mercury mined at a number of workings near the plant." By Andreas Feininger, OWI.
MAY 20, 2014 HANDLE WITH CARE: 1942-- Circa 1942. "Lost caption of a woman operating "yet another War-Winning Widget in Factorytown, USA." What is she making?
Comments said the machine is to bend tubing.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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