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[The Big Inch pipeline under construction: The pipe going under railroad and up hill] – Antique Wall Art

[The Big Inch pipeline under construction: The pipe going under railroad and up hill], [between 1942 and 1943] — historic photograph
[The Big Inch pipeline under construction: The pipe going under railroad and up hill], [between 1942 and 1943]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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Workers are shown laying the pipe beneath a railroad line and up a grade, a detail that captures the hard terrain the Big Inch crossed. The line was a 24-inch steel pipeline built during World War II to carry crude oil from the Texas Gulf Coast to refineries and markets on the East Coast, when German submarines were attacking tankers along the Atlantic seaboard. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, headed by Jesse Jones, helped finance the project, which is why the photographs are grouped in his collection. The date given here comes from the caption card and has not been independently verified.

Created / published[between 1942 and 1943]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 17. Jesse Jones Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,141 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160690

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