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Smoke stacks: photo by Alfred Palmer, 1942
O beautiful for spacious skies
Katherine Lee Bates: Pikes Peak, July 16, 1895
... they came, by slow degrees, upon a cheerless region...advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom. On every side, and far as the eye could see into the heavy distance, tall chimneys, crowding on each other, and presenting that endless repetition of the same dull, ugly form, which is the horror of oppressive dreams, poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air.
Katherine Lee Bates: Pikes Peak, July 16, 1895
... they came, by slow degrees, upon a cheerless region...advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom. On every side, and far as the eye could see into the heavy distance, tall chimneys, crowding on each other, and presenting that endless repetition of the same dull, ugly form, which is the horror of oppressive dreams, poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air.
Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop, 1840-1841
Smoke stack of TVA chemical plant where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, June 1942
Busy stacks give evidence of all-out war production effort at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Akron, Ohio: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Akron, Ohio: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, February 1942
Near the waterfront, New Bedford, Massachusetts: photo by Jack Delano, January 1941
A starch factory along the Aroostook River, Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine: photo by Jack Delano, October 1940
Southland Paper mill, Kraft (chemical) pulp used in making newsprint, Lufkin, Texas: photo by John Vachon, April 1943
Blast furnaces and iron ore at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation mills, Etna, Pennsylvania: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, November 1941
Smoke stacks: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
