polkcounty

56 photos tagged polkcounty, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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Boys working prune washer and sizer, 1943

from OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Until I saw this photograph the words "prune washer" and "prune sizer" had never occurred to me, ever, in my life. Such is the richness of the OSU Flickr-Commons experience! I was equally fascinated to learn that the 2011 US National Average Salary for Prune Washers is $29,963. No word if that includes all the prunes you can eat. I wonder what they earned in 1943!
  • OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons said:
    Sounds like a reference challenge -- that information must be somewhere in all these boxes we have!

A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Red Necks know stuff said:
    This is the caption that Marion Post Walcott included with her photo from 1939 but the actual damage to the vegetation occurred in the late 1800's. The smelting technology of that time did not allow the sulfur dioxide generated by the heating of the ore to be captured. By 1909 the mining companies developed new practices which let them recover the sulfur dioxide and use it in the manufacture of sulfuric acid. Reclamation in the Basin began in the 1930's with varying degrees of success initially. By the 1970's new techniques were developed and today most of the Basin has been revegetated.

Loading phosphate onto railroad car

from Florida Memory

  • Tako Tako said:
    well done !
  • Sara said:
    wonderful!