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Denver, Colorado. Steel ship parts getting a bath of sulphuric acid at one of the eight Denver plants which prepares the parts and sends them to Mare Island for assembly
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Credit lineDenver, Colorado. Steel ship parts getting a bath of sulphuric acid at one of the eight Denver plants which prepares the parts and sends them to Mare Island for assembly. 1942-01-01. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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