66275(62) | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Photo ID:
66275(62)
Date:
June 1942
Description:
Original caption reads: "TVA Production: Elemental Phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphte 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 convereted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill." Tennessee Valley Authority.
Phys. Desc:
Still Photograph
Repository:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
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Rights:
To the best of our knowledge, this image is in the public domain and can be used without further permission.