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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
- Who is the third who walks always beside you?
- When I count, there are only you and I together
- But when I look ahead up the white road
- There is always another one walking beside you
- Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
- I do not know whether a man or a woman
- -- But who is that on the other side of you?
- What is that sound high in the air
- Murmur of maternal lamentation
- Who are those hooded hordes swarming
- Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
- Ringed by the flat horizon only...
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tennessee: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tennessee: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tennessee: photo by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1939
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (excerpt), 1922
Photos by Marion Post Wolcott from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
Photos by Marion Post Wolcott from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
