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Aerial view of Bureau of Mines at Bruceton

1935/1980

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Aerial view of Bureau of Mines at Bruceton
  • Title
  • Aerial view of Bureau of Mines at Bruceton
  • Creator
  • Bureau of Mines - U.S. Department of Interior
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F03.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F03.I01
  • Description
  • Caption of the back of the photograph reads, “Aerial view of the Bureau of Mines, U. S. Department of the Interior property at Bruceton, Pa., showing pyrometallurgical laboratory buildings (lower center), synthetic liquid fuels research buildings (upper center), and power plant, where coal-preparation studies also are conducted (right center).” In 1944 the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act was passed which authorized the Bureau of Mines to build energy research laboratories. One of these was named the Bruceton Research Center.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • United States.Bureau of Mines (Bruceton, Pa.)
    Bruceton (Pa.)
    Aerial views--Pennsylvania--Bruceton.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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