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Photo of the Day: The Hanna Furnaces in Detroit 1942

Taken back when America was actually still a great Nation and not the dishrag that it is now.

The Hanna Furnaces: 1942
Coal tower over ovens of the Hanna furnaces, Great Lakes Steel, Detroit. Nov. 1942.

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