Garfield Smelter, Utah, 1910 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Garfield Smelter, Utah, 1910. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Garfield Smelter
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Garfield Smelter, Utah, 1910
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Garfield, Utah, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, was a smelting town in 1910, built around a large ore-processing plant that had opened only a few years earlier. The smelter treated copper ore hauled from the mines at Bingham Canyon, southwest of Salt Lake City, so the plant's fortunes rose and fell with the copper market and the output of the mines. Workers, many of them immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, lived in company-linked housing and worked long shifts around furnaces that never went cold. Smoke from the stacks drifted over the surrounding flats and was already a source of complaint from neighboring farmers, a tension that would follow the plant for decades. The town took its name from President James A. Garfield, and in 1910 it was known across the region as the place where Bingham's copper was turned into metal.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | west coast art co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Utah |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,036 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Garfield Smelter |
| Reference | UT Garfield Smelter 1910 |
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