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Muscle Shoals: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 3:32pm.
Furnace man at phosphate smelter, TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama. June 1942. View full size. Photograph by Alfred Palmer.
Alfred Palmer
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 9:55am.
This is one of many terrific photos by Palmer. He doesn't get enough respect. On the walls of my home office I have prints of five FSA-OWI photos. Four are by Palmer. His photos of work and industry are stunning.
What a photographer
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 1:57am.
It's remarkable that Alfred Palmer doesn't seem to get the same praise that his contemporaries receive. Maybe it's because his photographs always seem to be perfectly exposed, and perfectly posed. It is truly a shame, because his images are superlative.....
dangerous job
Submitted by Ron on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 9:56am.
This reminds me of when I was young I worked in a foundry, they would melt pig iron in a furnace like this one, the man who operated the furnace was getting burned all day and also had to deal with the heat and always had to worry about a blow up, the iron after it was cast would stay "red hot" for a couple of days, actually glowed red the first day. thanks for the memory.
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