Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.
On Wednesday the Library of Congress started a pilot project with the photo sharing site flickr to upload more than 3,000 photographs from the library's collection. Today's photo is part of that collection and was taken in about 1940.
Furthermore, these historic photos from the early 20th century have no known copyright restrictions. That means I can blog photos from the collection like the one above. And even further furthermore, the collection includes many scanned from color transparancies and slides taken by government photographers in the 1930s and 40s.
I think its interesting to see such old and historic photographs in full color.
You can read more about the project here.
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