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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Charging the aluminum furnace in the improvised foundry built at Daytona Beach, Florida, by city fireman J.L. Clayton. Old auto crankcases, pots, pans--any solid form of aluminum--is dropped into the homemade crucible for remelting and casting into exp
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Credit lineDeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Charging the aluminum furnace in the improvised foundry built at Daytona Beach, Florida, by city fireman J.L. Clayton. Old auto crankcases, pots, pans--. 1942-01-01. Hollem, Howard R., United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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