Original archive title

Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land

Titles are kept as the archive wrote them and reflect the language of their time.

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

Notes from the archive

11671-6. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179057520

Details

Date1939 Sept.

Medium1 slide : color.

Source

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs

CreditLibrary of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs.

LicenseThe contents of the Library of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.