Smoke stacks (LOC)

look at the color of that smoke!

Oddly beautiful, considering the consequences

industrial
mankind, the bee
hives without consideration
short term thinking
long term effect
will we learn
together

Kodachrome Daylight Type

The consequences of releasing steam into the air?

Smoke stacks (LOC) by The Library of Congress.

Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.

Smoke stacks

1942

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Smokestacks
Industrial facilities

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-28 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35072

Call Number: LC-USW36-376

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Comments

★VegaChastain★ says:

What a beautiful mess we've made.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Brajeshwar says:

Wow! This is how the other developing countries learn how to pollute the environment which you (the developed) have done long back.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

wmahl says:

It is interesting how some people point fingers at others to make their own plight seem more acceptable. That, is truly ignorant.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Bill Hass says:

And if visionary and inventive people in our country hadn't developed ways to use our resources when they did, you that criticize with your sound bites would have been complaining about something else.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

pacoloio says:

Is this american way of fife?
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

Exsultare Fenix [deleted] says:

humans are curious creatures. happy to have the benefits and all too willing to avert their eyes from the costs, or blame them only upon those whose land houses them, as if in accepting the output, they are any less culpable. we're in "this" together, folks. if there's any shame, any blame, it is utterly shared by now.

at some point, we really need to stop pointing fingers. nothing is going to be accomplished until then. so the real question is -- who is the better human? and do we or do we not really want to be better humans?
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

m58052 says:

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Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

iCyclops says:

environment, schmenvironment.... this is a beautiful photograph.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

luzge says:

excellent smoke capture! nice contrast on this one as well
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Sretenje od Vuletica says:

You only fault pig,and the photo is the same.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

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