Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) ‘Howard R. Hollem was a photographer with the US Farm Security Administration and the US Office of War Information during the 1930s and 1940s.’ https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1002

in the #CCC (#CivilianConservationCorps) and #NYA (#NationalYouthAdministration). He came here from #Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania.’
Photograph by Howard Rauch Hollem (1902-1949)
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#HowardHollem #WW2 #DefenseIndustry #TheNewDeal

#ReadingandNorthern T1 4-8-4 No. 2102 heads north from #Nesquehoning, Pa. into the #LehighRiver Gorge and the #PoconoMountains on the "The Road of Anthracite" towards #Tunkhannock on June 21. Two Reading and Northern diesels assisted the 2102 over the mountain between Mountain Top and Pittston.

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Historians will look back on this lede from #Carbon County, #Pennsylvania with a disgust we can't even comprehend. tl;dr: Burning used tires and waste #coal to mine #Bitcoin.

Via WBRE/WYOU: "Panther Creek Electric Generating Facility in #Nesquehoning was approved on May 1 to burn tires along […]

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/civilian-conservation-corps/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2017690161/ Howard R. Hollem was a photographer with the US Farm Security Administration and the US Office of War Information during the 1930s and 1940s. https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1002

in the #CCC (#CivilianConservationCorps) and #NYA (#NationalYouthAdministration). He came here from #Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania.’
Photograph by Howard Rauch Hollem (1902-1949)
👉ALT
#HowardHollem #WW2 #DefenseIndustry #TheNewDeal