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Screen Dykes at Downing's Point

Screen Dykes at Downing's Point

Condition
Used - Near fine
Published
1881
Binding
Ephemera
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(N.-pl.): US Army Corps of Engineers, 1881. Ephemera. Near fine. A cabinet view albumen silver print of erosion and bank protection improvements on the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri. The image depicts the river and a line of A-frame supports with wire and branches below the waterline to stop debris flows during the rainy season. Two Black… Read more about this item
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St. Louis Plant Manufactures 6-Ton Bomb

St. Louis Plant Manufactures 6-Ton Bomb

Condition
Used
Published
1944
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1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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1944. Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British air force for use on hardened… Read more about this item
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