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El Paso, United States

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She awaits the international streetcar at a corner in El Paso, Texas to return across the bridge

Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas

El Paso residents at plant quarantine station. El Paso, Texas

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Charging sheets of copper, produced by electrolysis, into a reverbatory furnace

Mexican church at the smelter, El Paso, Texas

El Paso, Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks in which sheets of pure copper are formed. The sheets are later melted and cast into ingots

El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refinng company. Working at the electrolytic tanks in which sheets of pure copper are formed

El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refining company. Trimming bars of pure copper

El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refining company. Interior view of casting house where copper is cast into ingots

El Paso, Texas. Workman trimming an ingot at the Phelps Dodge refining plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Molten copper being poured from the refinng furnace. It is run through a bed of coke to prevent oxidation before the copper is cast into molds

Casting ingots from copper at a Phelps Dodge refining company plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Interior of plant showing copper ingots on conveyors

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Sheets of copper on conveyors

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Copper is recovered from smoke that pours into these pipes from the furnaces of the refining plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Copper is recovered from smoke that pours into these pipes from the furnaces of the refining plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso Texas. Copper is recovered from smoke that pours into these pipes from the furnaces of the refining plant

El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refining company. Loading yard and exterior of the copper refining plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Copper received from the smelter ready for refining

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Copper received from the smelter ready for refining

El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas

El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas

Mexican adobe house, Mt. Franklin in distance, El Paso, Texas

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Sheets of copper being prepared for the electrolysis tanks