Friday Photo: Copper Commando


Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Robert I. Nesmith collectionAnaconda worker Gus Sbragia selects a gear pattern from the forty thousand stored in four stories of the Pattern Shop at the Foundry Department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The photo appeared in the October 23, 1942, Copper Commando, a tabloid-format newspaper intended to spur production of Montana metals during World War II. Pattern-makers created models that engineers used to manufacture and repair...
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Published on June 01, 2012 07:53
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